Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
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At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in
northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve
hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines.
The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated
trenches, severed communication wires, and drove men mad. As the
barrage lifted, German troops moved forward, darting from shell
crater to shell crater. The battle of Verdun had begun. In Verdun,
historian Paul Jankowski provides the definitive account of the
iconic battle of World War I. A leading expert on the French past,
Jankowski combines the best of traditional military history-its
emphasis on leaders, plans, technology, and the contingency of
combat-with the newer social and cultural approach, stressing the
soldier's experience, the institutional structures of the military,
and the impact of war on national memory. Unusually, this book
draws on deep research in French and German archives; this mastery
of sources in both languages gives Verdun unprecedented authority
and scope. In many ways, Jankowski writes, the battle represents a
conundrum. It has an almost unique status among the battles of the
Great War; and yet, he argues, it was not decisive, sparked no
political changes, and was not even the bloodiest episode of the
conflict. It is said that Verdun made France, he writes; but the
question should be, What did France make of Verdun? Over time, it
proved to be the last great victory of French arms, standing on
their own. And, for France and Germany, the battle would symbolize
the terror of industrialized warfare, a technocratic Moloch
devouring its children, where no advance or retreat was possible,
yet national resources poured in ceaselessly, perpetuating
slaughter indefinitely.
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