Author and Verdun historian Holstein offers a guidebook to the grounds that were the battlefields of Verdun, where German and French forces clashed repeatedly during World War I. As the author notes,
The bitter fight for Fort Vaux is one of the most famous episodes in the Battle of Verdun - it has achieved almost legendary status in French military history. The heroic resistance put up by the fort
This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun. It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three c