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

Where the Old World Ended. The First World War is mainly remembered through the snapshot of troubles in Eastern Europe followed by four years of fighting in a small strip of territory in Belgium and France. Most have heard of Gallipoli and maybe even Jutland, but few in the west can recall Tannenberg......more

Upwards of 2.3 million Russian soldiers were killed in their doomed struggle against the Central Powers. Their opponents, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, lost between 1.1 and 1.2 million men, only then to collapse in 1918, with the disintegration of both empires creating a human catastrophe of almost......more

This is a well-written and fluent narrative of the battles of the First World War campaigns involving the Central Powers and the Entente Powers in Central and Eastern Europe. It covers the Russian, Italian, Serbian and Bulgarian fronts. The reader gets a real sense of the scale and horror of these c......more

Incredibly well written and researched book, in an area untouched by the majority of historians, at least in the sense of compiling all the major battles of the Eastern Front in one complete volume. Aims to inform the reader at a strategic and operational level compared to at a tactical level, which......more

A complement to Nick Lloyd's already-published "The Western Front," "The Eastern Front" is a remarkable achievement in military history: a thorough unearthing of the war in Eastern Europe, Italy, and the Balkans between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and the Western Ent......more