Matthew’s Reviews > The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism > Status Update

Rather dry but an interest case on the national mood that led France to make mistake after mistake in World War I, culminating in the massive deaths at Verdun. Revenge for 1870, the inability to tactically retreat, and the belief that elan could defeat machine guns led to more deaths than was necessary, or so argues this author.