From: Infantry Magazine | Date: September 1, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 U.S. Army Infantry School. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Western Front: Ordinary Soldiers and the Defining Battles of World War I. By Richard Holmes. TV Books LLC, 1999. 224 Pages. $26.00, Hardcover.

Verdun. By David Mason. The Windrush Press, 2000. 202 Pages. $24.95. Reviewed by Colonel Christopher B. Timmers, U.S. Army, Retired.

If you are not familiar with much of the land warfare of World War I, Richard Holmes's work is an excellent primer. Toward the close of the book, he includes a four-page summary, "The ...