| 1. | The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
Paperback by Sir Alistair Horne. The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.
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| 2. | WALKING VERDUN: A Guide to the Battlefield (Battleground)
Paperback by Christina Holstein Holstein. On 21 February 1916 the German Fifth Army launched a devastating offensive against French forces at Verdun and set in motion one of the most harrowing and prolonged battles of the Great War. By the time the struggle finished ten months later, over 650,000 men had been killed or wounded or were missing, and the terrible memory of the battle had been etched into the histories of France and Germany. This epic trial of military and national strength cannot be properly understood without visiting, and walking, the battlefield, and this is the purpose of Christina Holstein's invaluable guide. In a series of walks she takes the reader to all the key points on the battlefield, many of which have attained almost legendary status - the spot where Colonel Driant was killed, the forts of Douaumont, Vaux and Souville, the Mort Homme ridge, and Verdun itself.
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| 4. | Verdun, visions d'histoire [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - France ]
DVD directed by Léon Poirier. France released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Verdun, visions d'histoire is markedly different from previous artistic endeavours made in France on the subject of WWI. For one thing, it doesn't attempt to apportion blame for what happened, nor does it demonise the German people. Instead, what it delivers is an authentic reconstruction of the battle of Verdun, showing the obscene folly of war without over-dramatising it, to provide a stark plea to future generations never to go down the same path again. What is most striking about the film is its trenchant realism, which is achieved principally by use of exterior locations that were the sites where much of the fighting took place in 1916 - sites that still bore the heavy scars of conflict. Most of the cast was made up of ex-service men who had served in WWI, including the actor Albert Préjean, who would have a huge career in France after the war. So convincing are the battle scenes that they are often inserted into other films and documentaries as if they were stock shots taken from the real battle. There is also a poetic dimension to this film, with the harsh realism periodically undercut by some surprising expressionistic touches that bring in elements of subjectivity. These are achieved through some effective use of superposition which illustrate what the protagonists are imagining and feeling as the world around them is transformed into an incomprehensible nightmare. The most memorable of these is the highly poignant scene where a wounded soldier on the battlefield imagines the spirits of his fallen comrades being taken to Heaven on a stretcher by the ghosts of their mothers
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