Verdun was a battle which lasted ten months and in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of 15 miles. This study of the men who fought there shows that Verdun is a key to understanding World War I - a key to the minds of those who waged it, and to the traditions that bound them.
In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. This work's narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, looking beyond the confines of military history, offering an understanding of the crises of the Franco-German rivalry.
The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. This study of the Siege and its aftermath looks at the high drama of those ten fantastic months and the spiritual agony which Paris and the Parisians suffered.
