As every history buff has known for at least a couple of seasons,
World War I is now competing with the Civil War for scholarly and
popular attention. If more than a handful of permanent
contributions survive, this should be one of them. Mr. Horne has
limited his study to "the grimmest battle in all that grim war" and
has examined every action with the greatest care. This is a
fascinating and splendidly articulated microcosm which can better
old the general reader's comprehension of the macrocosm- the entire
war and indeed many aspects of the half century which has followed
it. In ten months, on a terrain less than four miles square, over a
quarter of a million men were killed and nearly half a million
gassed or wounded. It is all here: the blunders and stupidity, the
squandered heroism, the indescribable fear, the hopeless misery,
the enormous tragedy. Mrs. Horne has made it both comprehensible
and unforgettable. (Kirkus Reviews)
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles; the battle whose aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death; the battleground whose once fertile terrain even now resembles a haunted wilderness, battered and crumbling.
This book is more than a chronicle of the facts of battle. It is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the men who fought there, and show that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War - a key to the minds of those who waged it, to the traditions that bound them, and to the world that gave them the opportunity. Continuously in print for over thirty years, this unabridged edition contains a new preface and additional photographs.
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