The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 Sports in WWI and Virginia—were given questionnaires soliciting

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

In this masterful book

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

account of each stage of the Somme battles

and a host of period documents and reports generated by various staff agencies of the American Expeditionary Forces

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 Sports in WWI and Virginia—were given questionnaires solicitingDescription 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