Alistair Horne - The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

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First published in Great Britain by Macmillan 1962

First published in United States of America by St Martins Press Inc. 1962

Abridged edition first published in Penguin Books 1964

Unabridged edition with new Preface published in Penguin Books 1993

Copyright Alistair Horne, 1962, 1964 ,1993

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ISBN: 978-0-14-193752-6

ALISTAIR HORNE

VERDUN 1916

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THE PRICE OF GLORY

Sir Alistair Horne was born in London in 1925, and has spent much of his life abroad, including periods at schools in the United States and Switzerland. He served with the R.A.F. in Canada in 1943 and ended his war service with the rank of Captain in the Coldstream Guards attached to MI5 in the Middle East. He then went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature and played international ice-hockey. After leaving Cambridge, Sir Alistair concentrated on writing: he spent three years in Germany as correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and speaks fluent French and German. His books include Back into Power (1955); The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (Hawthornden Prize, 1963); The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 197071 (1965); To Lose A Battle: France 1940 (1969); Small Earthquake in Chile (1972, paperback reissued 1999); A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 195462 won both the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize and the Wolfson History Award in 1978 (revised paperback edition 2006). His other publications include The French Army and Politics 18701970 (1984), which was awarded the Enid Macleod Prize in 1985, Harold Macmillan, Volumes I and II (198891), A Bundle from Britain (1993), a memoir about the USA and World War II; The Lonely Leader: Monty 19441945 (1996); Seven Ages of Paris: Portrait of a City (2003); Friend or Foe: A History of France (2004) and The Age of Napoleon (2004). In 1969 he founded a Research Fellowship for young historians at St Antonys College, Oxford. In 1992 he was awarded the CBE; in 1993 he received the French Lgion dHonneur for his work on French history and his Litt.D. from Cambridge University. He was knighted in 2003. He is currently working on an authorised biography of Henry Kissinger, as well as a second volume of his own memoirs.

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