Written October 2026 For the last three years I’ve gone on a battlefield history tour with friends. In 2024 we went to Ypres, last year we went to Normandy. This year we went a bit further afield and delved into French history with a visit to Verdun. The first serious military history book I ever read was Alistair Horne’s “The Price of Glory”, first published in 1962. I must have been in my early teens, so perhaps a bit of a strange book to choose. Anyway, I have always had an interest in the battle since then but have never...