The Eastern Front : a history of the Great War, 1914-1918 / Nick Llyod.
Record details
- ISBN: 1324092718
- ISBN: 9781324092711
- Physical Description: xxiv, 642 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-610) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Prologue: "It is nothing" -- Part I: "What fighting and dying really means": Krasnik to the fall of Serbia (July 1914-November 1915). "A visible bloody track" -- "A new and difficult task" -- "Our brave army deserved a better fate" -- "Not a battle but a slaughter" -- "The agony of defence" -- "The forerunner of a catastrophe" -- "I will save Russia" -- "The European war is nearing its end" -- Part 2: "A deluge is approaching": the third battle of the Isonzo to abdication of the tsar (October 1915-March 1917). "Even victorious wars leaves wounds" -- "Outstanding men are needed everywhere" -- "A moment of utmost gravity" -- "The greatest crisis of the world war" -- "This means the end of the war!" -- "Falkenhayn is here!" -- "Born for misfortune" -- Part 3: "A new enemy": the first battle of Dojran to Vittorio Veneto (March 1917-November 1918). "Neither peace nor war" -- "Days of imperishable glory" -- "Time is running out" -- "The troops do not fight" -- "We are going out of the war" -- "Gambler's throw" -- "The off-change of something good" -- "The honour of the army" -- Epilogue. |
Summary, etc.: | The second installment in Lloyd's bravura history of the First World War, The Eastern Front chronicles the bloody fighting in Eastern Europe and the Balkans through diary entries, eyewitness reports and memoirs. The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front. In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war': the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires. Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium, yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody. Between 1914 and 1917, huge numbers of people--perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians--were killed, wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length. Through intimate eyewitness reports, diary entries and memoirs--many of which have never been translated into English before--Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balkans as a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and which sucked in Russia, Germany and Italy, right through to the final collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918. The Eastern Front paints a vivid and authoritative picture of a conflict that shook the world, and that remains central to understanding the tragic, blood-soaked trajectory of the entire twentieth century, including the current war in Ukraine. |
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Subject: | World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Eastern Front. Military history. |
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