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

by Nick Lloyd

Book Overview

Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the combatants, in its military kaleidoscope, it far surpasses by magnitude and intensity all similar human episodes." It was, he concluded, "the most frightful misfortune" to fall upon mankind "since the collapse of the Roman Empire before the Barbarians."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324092718
• ISBN13: 9781324092711
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"