Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Verdun, the eighth and climactic volume of Jules Romains' vast Men of Good Will (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), was pure holocaust on the heroic scale. It was his attempt to show a nation, a continent, an age in the paroxysm of war. It was the heaviest piece of orchestration Romains' gigantic project had yet demanded...
...POOL OF VISHNU-L. H. Myers-Nelson ($3). VERDUN-Jules, Romains-Knopf...
...this battle was more serious than either. At Verdun men died, but 20 miles behind the lines others tilled fields, worked in factories, traveled in trains. Civilized life then came to an end at No Man's Land, a civilized country was eaten away at the edges. But except at the edge its body remained almost untouched. Now the whole broad body of a civilized country was under attack...
...Verdun attackers as well as defenders died in thousands. Such mutual slaughter captured men's imaginations and the head lines. Last week's battle was far more ominous from a military standpoint...
...this made the Battle of Britain last week a greater and more ominous Verdun...