The price of glory verdun 19166/5/2023 ![]() I learned how it has seeped into the military spirit of France and to a lesser degree Germany. Prior to this book, I knew of Verdun to be a horrible battle, but not sure of the specifics why. I learned much about Verdun I did not know previously. Wikipedia and overall having an internet-equipped mobile device was quite helpful. ![]() As the reader wades further into the pages, political and minor military characters are discussed, leaving the reader to do some investigation independently. Gallipoli is described as brilliantly conceptualized without itself being described first. Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in that dreadful 1914 fall, was referenced without an introduction. ![]() It expects the reader to have intermediate prior knowledge of the war. It’s one of those books where it seems like you do more note taking than reading, alternatively flipping back and forth between the page and the pen. The book is slathered with details in an effort not to just listlessly regurgitate actions taken but provide the proper backdrop against which decisions were made. This is one of those books where it seems like every sentence had two nuggets of information woven in. ![]()
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