{"product_id":"price-of-glory-2","title":"Price of Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of Paris \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTo Lose a Battle \u003c\/i\u003eand tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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 battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Verdun was the bloodiest battle in history ... \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Glory \u003c\/i\u003eis the essential book on the subject'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'It has almost every merit ... Horne sorts out complicating issues with the greatest clarity. He has a splendid gift for depicting individuals'\u003cbr\u003e  A.J.P. Taylor, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A masterpiece'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Compellingly told ... Alastair Horne uses contemporary accounts from both sides to build up a picture of heroism, mistakes, even farce'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Brilliantly written ... very readable; almost like a historical novel - except that it is true'\u003cbr\u003e  Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  One of Britain's greatest historians, \u003cb\u003eSir Alistair Horne, CBE\u003c\/b\u003e, is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and Germany, \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Glory, The Fall of Paris \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTo Lose a Battle\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252826132824,"sku":"9780140170412","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780140170412.jpg?v=1764472531","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/price-of-glory-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}