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The Verdun Regiment - Into the Furnace: The 151st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun 1916 (Hardcover)
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The Verdun Regiment - Into the Furnace: The 151st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun 1916 (Hardcover)
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Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on
the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their
soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of
the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the
enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to
comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by
focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in
1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of
soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in
this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The
French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at
Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917, and lost 3,200
soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from
that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in
this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their
story in the most compelling way, and through their words the
larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to
life.
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