The Price of Glory : Verdun, 1916

By (author) Horne, Alistair

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

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[目次]

  • La debacle
  • joffre of the marne
  • Falkenhayn
  • operation Gericht
  • the waiting machine
  • the first day
  • the fall of Colonel Driant
  • breakthrough
  • Fort Douaumont
  • De Castelnau decides
  • petain
  • the take-over
  • reappraisals
  • the Mort Homme
  • widening horizons
  • in another country
  • the air battle
  • the crown prince
  • the triumvirate
  • "May Cup"
  • Fort Vaux
  • danger signals
  • the secret enemies
  • the crisis
  • Falkenhayn dismissed
  • the counterstrokes
  • the new leader
  • aftermath

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書名 The Price of Glory : Verdun, 1916
著作者等 Horne, Alistair
書名別名 Verdun, 1916
出版元 Penguin Books Ltd
刊行年月 1993.11.04
ページ数 400p
大きさ H198 x W129
ISBN 9780140170412
言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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