Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914 1918) Language. Verdun and the Battles for Its Possession.
The result was almost 200 square kilometres of ground that had been blasted, ploughed and poisoned into a wasteland by explosives and gas, so much so that the post-war French authorities were unable to return it to its former agricultural use and simply left it to the elements. The Battle of Verdun (1914-1918) Alternate Title. The greatest strength of Jankowskis book comes from his reliance on. In addition, fixed defences like the forts of Douaumont and Vaux sparked hellish underground fighting in subterranean pitch darkness that occurred nowhere else on the Western Front. in one of the best books written in recent years about Verdun. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. As the battle raged the combatants endured heat and thirst akin to desert conditions together with bottomless mud as bad as at Passchendaele. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Hornes 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. Massed artillery was employed on a hitherto unprecedented scale the initial bombardment lasted for nine hours and saw 80,000 shells fall on the French trench line, while on the ground the initial attack saw the combat debut of storm-troop tactics and the man-pack flamethrower. The Battle of Verdun: A Captivating Guide to the Longest and Largest Battle of World War 1 That Took Place on the Western Front Between Germany and France (The Great War) History, Captivating on.
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On a much studied event (25 percent of all the many French books on World War I have been about the battle of Verdun), he has given us a work of rare originality and creativity. My book review series returns to the subject I started doing these reviews on. Conceived by the Germans as a means of destroying the French army through attrition rather than breakthrough and encirclement, the battle cost 300,000 lives. All of our paper waste is recycled within the UK and turned into corrugated cardboard. Book Reviews Paul Jankowski, Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). Jankowskis book offers a model history of warfare.' Philip Jenkins, Books & Culture 'Paul Jankowskis Verdun is a great book, truly a masterwork of modern literature. Fought on the heights above the garrison town of the same name on the River Meuse, 140 miles east of Paris, the Battle of Verdun lasted for ten months, between February and December 1916, double the length of the Battle of the Somme and over three times the length of the Battle of Passchendaele.
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