The Price of Glory

<p><b><i>The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 </i></b><b>is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes <i>The Fall of Paris </i>and <i>To Lose a Battle </i>and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.</b><br><br> 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. <br><br> 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.<br><br> 'Verdun was the bloodiest battle in history ... <i>The Price of Glory </i>is the essential book on the subject'<br />  <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br> 'It has almost every merit ... Horne sorts out complicating issues with the greatest clarity. He has a splendid gift for depicting individuals'<br />  A.J.P. Taylor, <i>Observer</i><br><br> 'A masterpiece'<br />  <i>The New York Times</i><br><br> 'Compellingly told ... Alastair Horne uses contemporary accounts from both sides to build up a picture of heroism, mistakes, even farce'<br />  <i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br> 'Brilliantly written ... very readable; almost like a historical novel - except that it is true'<br />  Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery<br><br> One of Britain's greatest historians, <b>Sir Alistair Horne, CBE</b>, is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and Germany, <i>The Price of Glory, The Fall of Paris </i>and <i>To Lose a Battle</i>, as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.</p> <p><b><i>The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 </i></b><b>is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes <i>The Fall of Paris </i>and <i>To Lose a Battle </i>and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.</b><br><br> 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. <br><br> 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.<br><br> 'Verdun was the bloodiest battle in history ... <i>The Price of Glory </i>is the essential book on the subject'<br />  <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br> 'It has almost every merit ... Horne sorts out complicating issues with the greatest clarity. He has a splendid gift for depicting individuals'<br />  A.J.P. Taylor, <i>Observer</i><br><br> 'A masterpiece'<br />  <i>The New York Times</i><br><br> 'Compellingly told ... Alastair Horne uses contemporary accounts from both sides to build up a picture of heroism, mistakes, even farce'<br />  <i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br> 'Brilliantly written ... very readable; almost like a historical novel - except that it is true'<br />  Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery<br><br> One of Britain's greatest historians, <b>Sir Alistair Horne, CBE</b>, is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and Germany, <i>The Price of Glory, The Fall of Paris </i>and <i>To Lose a Battle</i>, as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.</p>