ASIN: B00Q7E33WA
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 46
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“On ne Passe Pas!” (“They Shall Not Pass!”) – Marshal Petain"Like Auschwitz, Verdun marks a transgression of the limits of the human condition.” – Antoine Prost“Humanity is mad. It must be mad to do what it is doing. What a massacre! What scenes of horror and carnage! I cannot find words to translate my impressions. Hell cannot be so terrible. Men are mad!” – French Lieutenant at VerdunThe names of history’s most famous battles still ring in our ears today, their influence immediately understood by all. Marathon lent its name to the world’s most famous race, but it also preserved Western civilization during the First Persian War. Saratoga, won by one of the colonists’ most renowned war heroes before he became his nation’s most vile traitor. Hastings ensured the Normans’ success in England and ...
