# The Price of Glory

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- Book: [The Price of Glory](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-horne/the-price-of-glory) ([The Price of Glory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-horne/the-price-of-glory.md))
- Authors: [Alistair Horne](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-horne)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4017-041-2
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2007-06-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. 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.