
Название: Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
Автор: Paul Jankowski
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199316899
Год: 2014
Язык: английский
Страниц: 336
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.8 MB
At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication wires, and drove men mad. As the barrage lifted, German troops moved forward, darting from shell crater to shell crater. The battle of Verdun had begun.