Author: HORNE, ALISTAIR
Title: The Price of Glory, Verdun 1916
Description: London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 372 pages. Black and white photographic plates, bibliography, index, and index of army units. "As much as any First World War battle, Verdun was a turning point in the course of the war; it also had a profound lasting effect on the history of France and during the following decades. The attack on Verdun was an offensive unique in the history of war, the brainchild of the cold and inhuman mind of the German Chief-of-Staff, von Falkenhayn." - dust jacket. "I have found it enthralling - a superbly moving picture of that appalling struggle, and the best account of it that I have ever read." - Liddell Hart. Prior owner's name stamped twice upon front endpaper and blind-stamped upon title page. Annotations to four pages with additional hand-written comments on removeable sticky notes on several pages. Pen mark along length of front hinge. Prior owner affixed an envelope containing his annotated research materials to back free endpaper. Average wear to publisher's red cloth. Binding intact. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound and carefully studied copy. ENSER p.383; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; World War 1914-1918, Verdun, von Falkenhayn, Fort Douaumont,. Good in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: 1914 1918 Military