{"id":57634,"date":"2025-03-10T17:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/the-eastern-front-a-history-of-the-great-war-1914-1918\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:06:41","slug":"the-eastern-front-a-history-of-the-great-war-1914-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/the-eastern-front-a-history-of-the-great-war-1914-1918\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918"},"content":{"rendered":"


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<\/p>\n

An Economist Best Book of 2024<\/p>\n

“[A] superb history\u2026so 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.” \u2015Economist<\/p>\n

“[H]arrowing\u2026excellent\u2026[a] masterly study.” \u2015William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was \u201cincomparably 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.\u201d It was, he concluded, \u201cthe most frightful misfortune\u201d to fall upon mankind \u201csince the collapse of the Roman Empire before the Barbarians.\u201d Yet Churchill was an exception, and the war in the east has long been seen as a sideshow to the brutal combat on the Western Front. Finally, with The Eastern Front\u2015the first major history of that arena in fifty years\u2015the acclaimed historian Nick Lloyd corrects the record.<\/p>\n

Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as eyewitness reports, diary entries, and memoirs, Lloyd moves from the great battles of 1914 to the final collapse of the Central Powers in 1918, showing how a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spiraled into a massive conflagration that pulled in Germany, Russia, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria. The Eastern Front was a vast theater of war that brought about the collapse of three empires and produced almost endless suffering. As many as sixteen million soldiers and two million civilians were killed or wounded in enormous battles that took place across as much as one hundred kilometers. Unlike in the west, where stalemate ruled the day, the war in the east was fluid, with armies embarking on penetrating advances. Lloyd narrates the repeated invasions of Serbia as well as the great battles between Russian, German, and Austrian forces at Tannenberg, Komar\u00f3w, Gorlice\u2013Tarn\u00f3w, and the Masurian Lakes. All along, he takes us into the strategy of the generals who decided the war\u2019s course, from the Germans Ludendorff and Hindenburg to the Austro-Hungarian chief, Conrad von H\u00f6tzendorf, to the brilliant Russian Brusilov.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most radical aspect of the struggle in the east was that the violence was not confined to combatants. The Eastern Front witnessed calculated attacks against civilians that ripped the ethnic and religious fabric of numerous societies, paving the way for the horrors of the Holocaust. Lloyd\u2019s magisterial, definitive account of the war in the east will fundamentally alter our understanding of the cataclysmic events that reshaped Europe and the world.<\/p>\n

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\n Brimming with vivid detail and insight, The Western Front is a work in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman and John Keegan, Rick Atkinson and Antony Beevor: an authoritative portrait of modern warfare and its far-reaching consequences. NEW: 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. <\/p>\n

What Readers Say
\n “An admirably clear and judicious narrative of the battlefield course of events.\u2026Lloyd\u2019s book will be cherished by military history buffs.” \u2015Max Hastings, Sunday Times “No one is better at recreating the drama of the Great War than Nick Lloyd.\u2026A masterpiece of First World War history.” \u2015Sean McMeekin, author of Stalin\u2019s War: A New History of World War II <\/p>\n

Publisher \u200f : \u200e W. W. Norton & Company (August 27, 2024)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 672 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 1324092718
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-1324092711
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.4 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6.5 x 1.7 x 9.6 inches <\/p>\n

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Customers find the book informative and well-researched. They describe it as a great book on a poorly understood theater of World War I. However, some customers report missing pages due to the publisher’s fault.<\/span><\/p>\n

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