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VERDUN TO THE VOSGES Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France

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The author, Gerald Campbell, was a special correspondent of The Times early in the Great War, attached to the French army holding the lower section of the Western Front from the famous French fortress town of Verdun to the Vosges hills of Alsace-Lorraine - the 'lost' provinces wrested from France at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The main body of the book describes the little known - but crucially important - battles of the Frontiers in the opening weeks of the war, when the French hurled themselves on the Germans in brave but extremely costly and largely futile offensives. These battles of 1914 yielded little, and although the Francophile Campbell attempts to put as best a spin as he can on events, he cannot disguise the fact that the war - when his book was published in early 1916 - had bogged down into a bloody stalemate. Ironically, the book was published on the eve of the great battle of Verdun - an even more costly experience for the French army - but one that cost the Germans dear too.
Release date Australia
November 11th, 2009
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Pages
374
Dimensions
216x140x21
ISBN-13
9781845747411
Product ID
3829595

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