The Price of Glory (62 page)

Chapter Twenty-Five

Final German efforts; Bordeaux (3), Zieser-Beringer, Ziegler, Ettighoffer, Thimmermann, Rouquerol, Passaga. Falkenhayn’s replacement; Crown Prince, Falkenhayn, Foerster, Kabisch (2), Wendt. The Tavannes Tunnel disaster; Hourticq, Delvert & Bouchor, Delvert (1), Rouquerol, Thellier de Poncheville.

Chapter Twenty-Six

The recapture of the forts; Marchal, Wendt, Rouquerol, Mangin, Caloni, Bordeaux (2), Gras, Menager, Bartlett, Chavagnes, Lafont, Passaga, Joffre, Zieser-Beringer, Zwehl (1), RA (1), Zweig, Ettighoffer, Ziegler, Hindenburg, Kabisch (2).

Chapter Twenty-Seven

The fall of Joffre and rise of Nivelle; Churchill, Pierrefeu, Williams, Caloni, Painlevé. The Nivelle Offensive and the Mutinies; Falls, Wolff, Churchill, Crown Prince (2), Morel-Journel, Hellot, Allard, Wintringham, Davidson, Blake, Boasson.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

The battlefields after 1916; Pericard, Hourticq, Passaga, Fonsagrive, Churchill, Irwin. Casualty estimates, here and elsewhere; Churchill, Wendt, Falls, Lefebvre,
Service Historique
, Ziegler, Chastenet (2), Ducasse &c., Ferry, Delvert & Bouchor, Edmonds (2). Assessment of German and French strategy; principally as per
Chapters 4
,
10
,
18
,
19
. Subsequent careers of principals at Verdun; Pericard, Delvert & Bouchor, Crown Prince (2), Williams, Morel-Journel, Hanotaux, Brogan, Churchill, Desmazes, Blake, Cru, Brandis, J. Wheeler-Bennett (
The Nemesis of Power
), Zieser-Beringer, von Einem (
ibid
), Falls, Liddell Hart (2), Zwehl (2), Falkenhayn, Ziegler, Jonas. The fathering of the Maginot Line; Caloni, Menager, Laure, Belperron, Debeney, Pétain. Moral effects of Verdun; Ducasse &c., Mazenod, Boasson, Jubert, Brogan, Dutourd, RA (1), Falls, Witkop, Ettighoffer, Chavagnes, Martel. Verdun and German inter-war strategy;
Bundeswehr
Archives, Heinz Guderian
(Panzer Leader),
Goerlitz, Wheeler-Bennett (
ibid
), Wendt, Ettighoffer, General Weisenberger (
Verdun, 1916–1940
, Bonn, 1941), Churchill (
The Second World War
), De Gaulle (
War Memoirs
).

Epilogue

Von Stülpnagel’s suicide attempt; Wheeler-Bennett (
ibid
).

INDEX

Agadir crisis,
10

aircraft, French,
201

air reconnaissance,
53-4

air war,
45-6
,
199-213
,
336
; and see
Cigognes, Groupe de
; ‘
Flying Circus
’;
Lafayette Squadron
;
Zeppelins

Alamein, El, battle of,
130
,
294
n

Alenson, Maj. d’,
231-2
,
265
,
321
,
332

Alexander of Serbia, Prince,
227

Alexander of Tunis, F.M. Earl,
22

Algeria,
348

Almeyreda,
196

American Ambulance Field Service,
209

‘Anastasie’, see
censorship
,
French

André, Gen.,
9

Annamite troops,
148

Arras,
25

artillery: French,
13
,
15
,
145
,
152
,
308-9
,
318
,
336
; German,
15
,
41-3
,
151
,
159
,
247-8

Artois,
24-5

Asiago,
282

Attaque à outrance
, see
Grandmaison, Col. de

Austria-Hungary,
29
,
35
; relations with Germany,
277-83
; army of,
279
,
282

Avize,
129

Avocourt,
162-4

Balfourier, Gen.,
13
,
113-14
,
143-4
; and see
XX Corps

balloons: observation,
199
;
‘Drachen’,
205
,
206

Balsley, Clyde,
185
,
212

Baltimore American, The,
243-4

Bansi, Col.,
285

Bapst, Gen.,
59
,
74-5
,
84
,
93-5
,
98-9

Barés, Col.,
203
,
207

Barescut, Col. de,
144
,
156

Bar-le-Duc,
119
,
146
,
203

barrage, creeping,
309
,
318
,
336

Barrès, Maurice,
10
,
148

Battle of the Frontiers,
18

Battle of the Wings,
156

Bauer, Col.,
33

Bazaine, Marshal,
3
,
4

Bazelaire, Gen. de,
144
,
157
,
158

Beaumont,
96
,
350

Bechu, Lt. Marcel,
285

Becker, Maj.,
99

Beeg, Maj.-Gen.,
43
,
76

Belfort,
5
,
36

Belleville; Fort,
48
,
145
; Ridge,
122
,
284

Belrupt, Fort,
48

Bergson, Henri,
11

Bernard, Lt.-Col.,
75
,
98-9

Bernhardt, Sarah,
7
,
194
,
198

Berthou,
Aspirant,
80-1

Bertrand, Maj.,
84-5
,
95
,
98

Bethincourt,
165

Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von,
217-18
,
243
,
303

Bettignies, Louise de,
53

Beumelburg, Werner,
326

‘Big Berthas’ (420s),
15
,
42
,
247-8

Binyon, Laurence,
184

Bismarck, Prince Otto von,
5-6
,
7
,
9

blockade, British,
190-1

Blumentritt, Gen.,
342
n

Boasson, Sgt. Marc,
186
,
270
,
274
,
297
,
324
,
340

Boelcke, Oswald,
200
,
202
,
206-7

Bois Bourrus ridge,
48
,
153
,
171

Bois de la Caillette,
234
,
249

Bois des Caures,
52
,
71
n
,
77-9
,
81
,
83
,
86-90
,
325

Bois des Corbeaux,
157-9

Bois Fumin,
249

Bolo Pasha,
196

Bonnet Rouge,
198
,
270

Bonneval, Gen. de,
59
,
122
; and see
37
th
African Division

Bonviolle, Lt.-Gen.,
83-6

Boraston, Col.,
294

Bordeaux, Henry,
205
,
319

Bordeaux, Government move to,
19

Boulanger, Gen.,
6

Boullangé, Gen.,
59

bourreurs de crâne,
196

Boyer, Gen.,
271

Brabant,
75
,
93-5

brancardiers
,
183

Brandis, Capt. von,
114
,
116-18
,
119
,
120-1
,
189
,
334

Bras,
75
,
93

Brauchitsch, F.M. Walther von,
342

Briand, Aristide,
126-7
,
243
,
275

Britain,
1
,
34-5
,
37
,
295
,
331
; British Expeditionary Force,
16-17
,
18
,
105
; ‘Kitchener Army’,
29
,
294
; blockade of Germany,
190-1
; unpopularity in France,
274