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  • Verdun

  • The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I, 1914-1918
  • Written by: John Mosier
  • Narrated by: Wes Talbot
  • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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Verdun

Written by: John Mosier
Narrated by: Wes Talbot
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Alongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during World War I stands as one of history’s greatest clashes. Yet it is also one of the most complex and misunderstood. Conventional wisdom holds that the battle began in February 1916 and lasted until December, when the victorious French wrested all the territory they had lost back from the Germans. In fact, says historian John Mosier, from the very beginning of the war until the armistice in 1918, no fewer than eight distinct battles were waged for the possession of Verdun. These conflicts are largely unknown, even in France, owing to the obsessive secrecy of the French high command and its energetic propaganda campaign to fool the world into thinking that the war on the Western Front was a steady series of German checks and defeats.

Although British historians have always seen Verdun as a one-year battle designed by the German chief of staff to bleed France white, Mosier’s careful analysis of the German plans reveals a much more abstract and theoretical approach.Our understanding of Verdun has long been mired in myths, false assumptions, propaganda, and distortions. Now, using numerous accounts of military analysts, serving officers, and eyewitnesses, including French sources that have never been translated, Mosier offers a compelling reassessment of the Great War’s most important battle.

©2013 John Mosier (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC
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“Mr. Mosier [is] one of the more entertainingly contrarian military historians writing today...An important and groundbreaking audiobook about the Eastern front.” ( The Washington Times on Hitler vs. Stalin)
“The author knows his military history, strategy, and tactics…packed with evidence, much of it ingeniously obtained and argued.” ( The Washington Post on The Myth of the Great War)

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Interesting ideas but very biased

The viewpoint of Verdun being more akin to the Isonzo battlefields is an interesting idea and the technical comparison of armaments is well done, but the pro-American bias and patronizing tone the author has makes the book almost unreadable towards the end, and his narrative goes far into irrelevant issues in the conclusion. It reads like a book from the 1960s.

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