Verdun 1916 : the deadliest battle of the First World War / William F. Buckingham.
"Fought on the heights above the town of the same name on the River Meuse, 140 miles east of Paris, the Battle of Verdun lasted for ten months, between February and December 1916, double the length of the Battle of the Somme. Conceived by the Germans as a means of destroying the French Army through attrition rather than by breakthrough and encirclement, the battle cost 300,000 lives. Massed artillery was employed on a hitherto unprecedented scale - the initial bombardment lasted for nine hours and saw 80,000 shells fall on the French trench line, while on the ground the initial attack saw the combat debut of storm troop tactics and the man-pack flamethrower. As the battle raged the combatants endured heat and thirst akin to desert conditions along with bottomless mud the dreadful equal of Passchendaele."--Page [4] of cover.
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- ISBN: 1445677229
- ISBN: 9781445677224
- Physical Description: 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Gloucestershire : Amberley Publishing, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Verdun, Battle of, Verdun, France, 1916.
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