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'Verdun was the bloodiest battle in history ... The Price of Glory is the essential book on the subject'\u003cbr\u003e  Sunday Times    'It has almost every merit ... Horne sorts out complicating issues with the greatest clarity. He has a splendid gift for depicting individuals'\u003cbr\u003e  A.J.P. Taylor, Observer    'A masterpiece'\u003cbr\u003e  The New York Times    'Compellingly told ... Alastair Horne uses contemporary accounts from both sides to build up a picture of heroism, mistakes, even farce'\u003cbr\u003e  Sunday Telegraph    'Brilliantly written ... very readable; almost like a historical novel - except that it is true'\u003cbr\u003e  Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery    One of Britain's greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and Germany, The Price of Glory, The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle, as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224209633653,"sku":"9780140170412","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140170412_4589d4a0-ba77-4e5c-9d08-1ae4d73e7fe5.jpg?v=1786011008"},{"product_id":"9780141030654","title":"To Lose a Battle","description":"To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.    In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to execute the Fall of France. A six-week battle with lightning 'blitzkrieg' warfare and combined operations techniques, the offensive ended the Phony War and sent the French forces reeling as their government fled from occupied Paris. For the Axis, it was a dramatic victory. But how was this spectacular result possible?    In To Lose a Battle Alistair Horne tells the day-by-day, moment-by-moment story of the battle, sifted from the vast Nazi archives and the fragmentary records of the beaten Allies. Using eye-witness accounts of battle operations and personal memoirs of leading figures on both sides, this book steps far beyond the confines of military accounts to form a major contribution to our understanding of this important period in European history.    'Alistair Horne really brings home the pathos and human folly of war, and he writes brilliantly'\u003cbr\u003e  The Times    'Horne follows his line unfalteringly. All the details are there: the small, fleeting triumphs, the greater disasters, the bravery, the cowardice, the stupidity and the intelligence ... that make war so fascinating and so terrible'\u003cbr\u003e  Economist    'Horne completes his masterly trilogy ... the definitive account of one of the most efficient and astonishing campaigns of all time'\u003cbr\u003e  The Times Literary Supplement    One of Britain's greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and Germany, The Price of Glory, The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle, as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225024049525,"sku":"9780141030654","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141030654_28c9874f-f745-46ca-b556-13ffd9969d09.jpg?v=1786011610"},{"product_id":"9781590172186","title":"A Savage War of Peace","description":"The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly a half century has passed since this savagely fought war ended in Algeria’s independence, and yet—as Alistair Horne argues in his new preface to his now-classic work of history—its repercussions continue to be felt not only in Algeria and France, but throughout the world. Indeed from today’s vantage point the Algerian War looks like a full-dress rehearsal for the sort of amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that now ravages the Middle East, from Beirut to Baghdad—struggles in which questions of religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism take on a new and increasingly lethal intensity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Savage War of Peace\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive history of the Algerian War, a book that brings that terrible and complicated struggle to life with intelligence, assurance, and unflagging momentum. 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But suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was gripped in the vice of the Prussian armies and forced to surrender on humiliating terms. Almost immediately Paris was convulsed by the savage self-destruction of the newly formed Socialist government, the Commune.    In this brilliant study of the Siege of Paris and its aftermath, Alistair Horne researches first-hand accounts left by official observers, private diarists and letter-writers to evoke the high drama of those ten tumultuous months and the spiritual and physical agony that Paris and the Parisians suffered as they lost the Franco-Prussian war.    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