Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Verdun Regiment : Into the Furnace: The 151st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun 1916 - Johnathan Bracken

The Verdun Regiment

Into the Furnace: The 151st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun 1916

By: Johnathan Bracken

Hardcover | 25 January 2018

At a Glance

Hardcover


$61.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $15.44 with

 or 

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account.

The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917, and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life.

20 illustrations

About the Author

Johnathan Bracken has had a lifelong interest in history, and military history in particular, and has made a special study of the French army in the First World War. He is the president of the living-history organization, le 151e Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne, and he works as an Information Governance Analyst in New York City.

More in Military History

Huey : The Helicopter That Became an Australian Aviation Icon - Mark Lax
On My Watch : Leading NATO in a Time of War - Jens Stoltenberg

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
Inferno : Australians on the Western Front - Phillip Bradley

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
Code of Silence : How Australian Women Helped Win the War - Diana Thorp
Midnight : The story of a Light horse - Mark Greenwood

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Glass Mountain : Escape and Discovery in Wartime Italy - Malcolm Gaskill
The Maginot Line : A New History of the Fall of France - Kevin Passmore
Kokoda : Updated Edition - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy : Leather-bound Classics - Sun Tzu
Churchill : Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts

RRP $35.00

$28.75

18%
OFF
Stalin's Wine Cellar - John Baker

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Crusader Criminals : The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land - Steve Tibble
Armada : The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588 - Colin Martin
Resisting Erasure : Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine - Adam Hanieh
The Traitors Circle : THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Jonathan Freedland
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E Frankl

RRP $16.99

$14.75

13%
OFF