by Pierre Miquel · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782235021470
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«Mourir à Verdun» is the historical essay by Pierre Miquel on the Battle of Verdun, published by Tallandier in paperback (315 pages, in French).
Pierre Miquel reconstructs the 1916 Battle of Verdun using military archives and combatant testimonies: half a million Franco-German victims turned twenty square kilometres into an immense cemetery. The arms industry imposed unprecedented mass destruction, and the soldiers' sacrifice was a refusal of annihilation.
Includes bibliographical references (pp. 313-315). Dewey classification 940.4/272; subject: Battle of Verdun, France, 1916.
For those interested in the First World War, French military history and the great military episodes of the twentieth century.
French screenwriter, historian and writer (1930-2007)
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