How Long to Read The Verdun Regiment

How Long Does it Take to Read The Verdun Regiment?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 29 minutes to read The Verdun Regiment by Johnathan Bracken

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book on French soldiers during WWI is “a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment” (The Great War Magazine, Editor’s Choice). Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917 and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life. “The book recounts the horror of intense artillery bombardments and men mown down in great waves. None of this is particularly pretty and the accounts do much to scatter notions of war as a glorious, thrilling experience. It was vicious and brutal utterly cruel.”—War History Online

How long is The Verdun Regiment?

The Verdun Regiment by Johnathan Bracken is 437 pages long, and a total of 112,309 words.

This makes it 147% the length of the average book. It also has 137% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Verdun Regiment Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 13 minutes to read The Verdun Regiment aloud.

What Reading Level is The Verdun Regiment?

The Verdun Regiment is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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