title: Verdun: The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I, 1914-1918
author:  John Mosier 
description: Mr. Mosier [is] one of the more entertainingly contrarian military historians writing today...An important and groundbreaking book about the Eastern front.<i>The Washington Times</i> on <i>Hitler vs. Stalin</i><br /><br />The author knows his military history, strategy, and tacticspacked with evidence, much of it ingeniously obtained and argued. <i>The Washington Post</i> on <i>The Myth of the Great War</i><br /><br />This provocative book tosses military-history hand grenades on almost every page, challenging just about every generally held notion about World War II.<i>Forbes</i> on <i>The Blitzkrieg Myth</i><br /><br />A dramatic departure from the conventional wisdoma dramatic chronicle of the most brutal theater in the most brutal war in one of historys most brutal centuries...This is a clear-eyed, compelling description of a battle that has been described many times, but seldom with such an ironic eye.<i>The Boston Globe</i> on <i>Hitler vs. Stalin</i><br /><br />There is much in the work I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative.Niall Ferguson on <i>The Myth of the Great War</i>
zlib_text: The First World War
  
  A Captivating Guide to World War 1, The Battle of Verdun and the Battle of
  Somme
  
    
  
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