The Price of Glory by Alistair Horne (1993, Paperback, Reissue)

This paperback book boughht on eBay was in excellent condition. It has fine black and white photographs. The Price of Glory is the second book in Alistair Horne's triology, The Fall of Paris, The Price of Glory, and The Fall of France, 1940.

Interestingly, as Horne write in the preface of this book, The Price of Glory, his Fall of France was written first. He then felt the need to investigate the origins of France's collapse in May, 1940, and ended up studying the battle of Verdun in 1916. Not content with this he goes back to the Franco-Prussian War, and writes a book on the seige of Paris by von Moltke, the Elder, and Bismarck, and the succeeding uproar of the Commune. All three books are great reading for people who love history. The Price of Glory stands by itself as a compelling read of a tragic battle, which Horne is so good at conveying to the reader. One wants to cry at the at waste of lives resulting from the strategies by both the German and French generals. Horne makes it clear that after Verdun France will never be the same. Germany, curiously enough, wants another go at it.