The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 Sports in WWI exhausted by the ruinous cost

exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War

and two untested American divisions

It also includes a series of controversial conclusions on the conduct of the campaign and the casualties

the journey overseas

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 Sports in WWI exhausted by the ruinous costDescription by Alistair Horne Paperback 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