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The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
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The acclaimed historian of the Great War returns with the first comprehensive history of the Eastern Front in fifty years. Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill claimed that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history." In The Eastern Front, the second volume of his trilogy on the war, historian Nick Lloyd demonstrates that the conflict in the East was more fluid than that in the West, but no less deadly. Colliding on battlefronts up to three times larger than those in France and Belgium, the armies of Russia, Austro-Hungary, Germany, and the Balkan states fought on a vast scale and in a way that would have been unthinkable on the stalemated Western Front. Drawing on the latest scholarship, as well as eyewitness accounts, diaries, and memoirs, Lloyd narrates the destruction of old empires and the rise of the Soviet Union, showing how the war forever changed the region's political order. The Eastern Front is a gripping historical narrative that will transform our understanding of these cataclysmic events.
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"In his preface, Lloyd writes that "the weight of history still hangs over these lands", but his treatment of Ukraine in the book is surprisingly perfunctory and does not tell us much about how the events of the first World War have directly affected the current war."
"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of that troubled region up to and including the present."
"Lloyd emphasizes at the close of his masterly study, the disastrous events on the Eastern Front left a vacuum in Central and Eastern Europe that contributed to the next world war and to the Cold War that followed."
"Lloyd has produced a strategic and operational narrative that proceeds chronologically without ever losing coherence as it switches from one sector to another ..."
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