title: The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
author:  Alistair Horne 
description: One of Britains greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, is the author of several famous books on French history as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.
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  Deed of Glory
  
  
  
  
  
  Alan Evans
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  © Alan Evans 1984
  
  
  
  
  
  Alan Evans has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents
  Act, 2001, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in the U.K. in 1984 by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd
  
  
  
  
  
  This edition published in 2014 by Endeavour Press Ltd
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  “A deed of glory intimately involved in high strategy.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Winston Churchill of the Raid on St. Nazaire.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [1: Saracen](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc402183685)
  
  
  [2: “Our necks in a noose…!”](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc402183686)
  
  
  [3: Engel](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc402183687)
  
  
  [4: Landscape with Figures](part0000_split_007.html#_Toc402183688)
  
  
  [5: E-boat Alley](part0000_split_008.html#_Toc402183689)
  
  
  [6: “Enemy in sight!”](part0000_split_009.html#_Toc402183690)
  
  
  [7: A Dirty Game](part0000_split_010.html#_Toc402183691)
  
  
  [8: “…i