Walking Verdun (ePub)
A Guide to the Battlefield
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Series: Battleground: WWI
File Size: 28.4 MB (.epub)
Pages: 176
Illustrations: 100
ISBN: 9781783461622
Published: 16th July 2012
Verdun The Sacred Wound
1 of 2 BBC radio 4 programmes to coincide with Christina Holstein's Verdun titles, click here to listen to the first episode.
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.
Featured in
Stand To!, The Western Front Association - No. 123
A new guide book from one of the most knowledgeable Western Front historians and guides. A New work by long-time battlefield guide and WFA member who also wrote an earlier Pen & Sword book on Ft. Douaumont.
WWI Historical Association
Military Modelling online, June 2016 - Robin Buckland
As featured in
BBC History Magazine
By following 'Verdun', the reader will learn a great deal about the battle, which became of such legend to the French nation. Well worth buying.
The Long, Long Trail
One in the excellent 'Battleground' series of combined histories and battlefield walks from Pen & Sword which have proved so popular. This is a book that anyone with an interest in or who is visting the Verdun battlefield of 1916 will want to read or have with them. Clear, concise, informative and well illustrated.
Great War Magazine, Jan 2011
About Christina Holstein
Christina Holstein is a leading authority on the Battle of Verdun. For many years she lived close to the battlefield and has explored it in great detail. She regularly conducts tours of the battlefield for individuals or groups and, with her specialized knowledge of the terrain, has acted as consultant to a number of other historians, TV producers and TV and radio journalists. Over the years she has written five books in the Battleground Europe series on the Battle of Verdun 1916. She was the founding chairman of the Luxembourg branch of the Western Front Association.
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