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The Price of Glory
The Price of Glory
Oct 31, 2024 9:30 AM

Author:Alistair Horne

The Price of Glory

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. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.

Reviews

Gripping ... a much-needed reinterrogation

—— Daily Telegraph

A magisterial work...confident prose, trenchant insight and vivid illustration

—— Independent

'Splendidly conveys...compassion, excitement, entertainment'

—— Evening Standard

Vividly readable... Leslie Thomas is one of nature's life enchancers

—— Sunday Express

A fine storyteller

—— Sunday Telegraph

Grossman was above all a clear-eyed and generous witness to the human cost of war, civilians and soldiers of both sides, the lost women and broken men; in the very highest order of journalistic achievement, he was as alert to the victims as much as to the heroes his audience was required to read about

—— David Flusfeder , Daily Telegraph

Impeccably edited, the commentary as informative as it is unobtrusive.

—— Robert Chandler , Financial Times

In bringing his notebooks to a wider audience, and in reminding us about this brilliant witness, Beevor and Vinogradova have done their readers - and Grossman's memory - a great service

—— Independent

'Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. In re-creating their wartime experiences, he has produced a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War

—— History Today
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