THE ROAD TO VERDUN
Written by Ian Ousby
Published by Jonathan Cape
in 2002
ISBN: 0224059904
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- HISTORY
- FRANCE
THE ROAD TO VERDUN
Written by Ian Ousby.
Stock no. 1601461
1st.
2002.
Hardback.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
France, Nationalism and the First World War. 304 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0224059904. Wrapper is lightly edge creased.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Maps
- Prologue: The Road to Verdun
- PART ONE
- FRICTION AT VERDUN, FEBRUARY 1916
- 1 The Bois des Caures
- 2 The Fall of Douaumont
- PART TWO
- THE ENDLESS CRISIS, 1870-1914
- 3 The Raft of the Medusa
- 4 A Certain Idea In France
- 5 'What is a Nation?'
- PART THREE
- THE MILL ON THE MEUSE, MARCH-DECEMBER 1916
- 6 Holding Verdun
- 7 Ending Verdun
- Epilogue: The Road from Verdun
- Sources and Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index