The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 Sports in WWI elevates to its proper historical

elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War

and Virginia—were given questionnaires soliciting additional information and "remarks

the journey overseas

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

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 Sports in WWI elevates to its proper historicalDescription 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