Jankowski Paul Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War 9780199316892

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Автор: Jankowski Paul
Название: Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
ISBN: 9780199316892
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Классификация:

Военные действия и оборона

ISBN-10: 0199316899
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 03.02.2014
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 160 x 33
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: At seven oclock 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 soldiers 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.

Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War, Jankowski Paul