Verdun

Title: Verdun

Author: Romains, Jules

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 2nd Edition

Publication Date: 1962

ISBN: N/A

Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 500 pages

Comments: An account of the Battle of Verdun during World War 1.

The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France.

The German Fifth Army attacked the defences of the Région Fortifiée de Verdun (RFV) and the Second Army on the right bank of the Meuse, intending rapidly to capture the Côtes de Meuse (Meuse Heights) from which Verdun could be overlooked and bombarded with observed artillery-fire.

The German strategy intended to provoke the French into counter-attacks and counter-offensives to drive the Germans off the heights, which would be relatively easy to repel with massed artillery-fire from the large number of medium, heavy and super-heavy guns, supplied with large amounts of ammunition on excellent pre-war railways, which ran within 24 kilometres of the front-line.

Damaged and tattered Dust Jacket else in very good condition.