The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An Economist Best Book of the Year

“[A] superb history…so much has been forgotten, including the course of the war in the east across multiple theaters of operation and the strategies pursued by both sides. It is all this and more that Mr. Lloyd has resurrected in compelling detail.” —Economist

“Harrowing.… [E]xcellent.… [A] masterly study.” —William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal

The first major history in fifty years of the often overlooked Eastern Front of the First World War, where a more fluid conflict resulted in the destruction of great empires and the rise of the Soviet Union.

About the Author :
Nick Lloyd is a Professor of Modern Warfare at King’s College London and the author of five books on World War I, including Passchendaele and The Western Front. He lives in Cheltenham, England.

Review :
"Masterly." "Highly detailed and meticulously researched." "No one is better at recreating the drama of the Great War than Nick Lloyd.… Even specialists will learn a great deal from this book. A masterpiece of First World War history." "Nick Lloyd brilliantly pulls together the manifold strands and brings to life the dark realities of an often ignored but hugely important theater which paved the way for the horrors of World War II." "This is the story of the First World War’s Eastern Front told on a Homeric scale. Nick Lloyd gives us not only a compelling account of warfare on the ‘long front’ from Riga to Thessalonica but also an intimate and disturbing portrait of the fighting taken from regimental histories, diaries, and the testimony of the dead." "The warfare that produced the fall of two empires and the socialist revolution that shook the world is presented here in all its horror and complexity by a master storyteller and an expert in the field." "A huge achievement. Nick Lloyd’s readable and compelling narrative takes his reader into the vast geographical expanses of Eastern Europe, Italy, the Balkans and Macedonia, showing how consequential these lesser-known fronts were to the struggle of 1914–18." "An exemplary study of a much-neglected subject. Nick Lloyd is at the very top of his game…A fabulous historian." "Nick Lloyd searingly recreates the battlefields of the Eastern Front, Italy, and the Balkans in this taut, thrilling history in which he deploys all of his marvelous gifts to maximum effect: biography, political analysis, and operational military history." "A massive and major corrective… this important book adds a huge dimension to studies of World War I."