1916. The Battle of Verdun (February 21-May 7).

The Battle of Verdun (February 21-May 7). With 32 Full-Page Illustrations and Maps. By Henry Dugard.

Publisher: Hutchinson & Company, 1916, 2nd edition. Good hardback in red cloth boards. Some marks and a little bumping to boards, Spine is dulled down. Pages are quite tanned and heavily foxed. Bookseller's blind stamp to ffep. Gift inscription on half-title page dated 1917. Fold out map has a large repaired tear. 288 pages with b&w photos.

Verdun, with its 300 nights and day of ceaseless fighting, remains the symbol of the First World War. Verdun was among the most deadly battles in history. To understand this struggle is to understand all of World War I. By the battle's end on December 16th (ignoring subsequent operations which took place in Verdun later on in the war), almost two and a half million French and German soldiers had borne arms at Verdun, an area of operations roughly 550 square miles in size. The battle, according to some estimates, accounted for almost a million men killed, captured, or wounded.