Toronto, CA: Macmillan, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. “That’s what war does. Strips people and places of their identities and turns them into enemies in a line, positions to be taken, resources to be foraged. Anonymous things that can be carelessly crushed, and stolen, and burned without guilt”—Joe Abercrombie, “The Heroes” (2011). The Battle of Verdun, (February 21–December 18, 1916), was a World War I engagement in which the French repulsed..... More