Verdun: The Left Bank

by Christina Holstein

Overview

A Battle of Verdun specialist explores the lesser-known events of the left bank in this illustrated WWI history and battlefield guide.

This fascinating study explores the background of the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It also explains fateful decision to change the original German offensive plan, extending the action to the Left Bank of the River Meuse.

Using only original French and German sources, historian Christina Holstein describes the fighting on the Left Bank and follows the German offensive as it slowly pushed forward, taking three terrible months to reach its objectives: the two hills known as Cote 304 and the Mort-Homme, or Dead Man. The French defense of the Left Bank hills, described by Germans themselves as outstanding, is also covered in great detail.

With intimate knowledge of the Verdun battlefield, Holstein describes the events in vivid detail and provides three walking tours through areas of the Left Bank rarely seen by visitors. This volume also contains more than 150 photographs, most of which have never been published before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473880375
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	01/31/2020
Series:	Battleground Verdun
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	740,580
File size:	21 MB
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About the Author

Christina Holstein is a leading authority on the Battle of Verdun. For many years she lived close to the battlefield and has explored it in great detail. She regularly conducts tours of the battlefield for individuals or groups and, with her specialized knowledge of the terrain, has acted as consultant to a number of other historians, TV producers and TV and radio journalists. Over the years she has written four books in the Battleground Europe series on the Battle of Verdun 1916. She was the founding chairman of the Luxembourg branch of the Western Front Association.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction 4

Introduction 6

Author's Note 9

Advice to Tourers 12

List of Maps 14

Chapter 1 A Limited Operation 15

Chapter 2 Goose Ridge and Mort-Homme 29

Chapter 3 Malancourt Wood 49

Chapter 4 Malancourt and Haucourt 65

Chapter 5 Cote 304 87

Chapter 6 Mort-Homme 107

Introduction to the Tours 127

Tour No 1 Cote 304 - The North Side 128

Tour No 2 The Mort-Homme 147

Tour No 3 Cote 304 - The South Side 167

Select Bibliography 181

Further Reading 183

Battlefield Guidebooks 184

Useful Addresses 184

Acknowledgements 187

Index 188

Editorial Reviews

The book includes a plethora of historical and modern black & white photos… Well researched and a nicely done short history.

Summer 2018 World War One Illustrated