The Eastern Front

'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook , Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times ‘A masterwork . . . This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag Montefiore 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 twentieth century, and the current war in Ukraine.

'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook , Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times ‘A masterwork . . . This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag Montefiore 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 twentieth century, and the current war in Ukraine.

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." 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 --the first major history of that arena in fifty years--the acclaimed historian Nick Lloyd corrects the record. 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?w, Gorlice-Tarn?w, and the Masurian Lakes. All along, he takes us into the strategy of the generals who decided the war's course, from the Germans Ludendorff and Hindenburg to the Austro-Hungarian chief, Conrad von H?tzendorf, to the brilliant Russian Brusilov. 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's magisterial, definitive account of the war in the east will fundamentally alter our understanding of the cataclysmic events that reshaped Europe and the world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Economist Best Book of the Year “[A] superb history…so 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.” — Economist “Harrowing.… [E]xcellent.… [A] masterly study.” —William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal 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.

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Eastern Front during World War 2, then keep reading... Five captivating manuscripts in one book: Soviet Union in World War 2: A Captivating Guide to Life in the Soviet Union and Some of the Main Events on the Eastern Front Such as the Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk, and Siege of LeningradThe Winter War: A Captivating Guide to the Russo-Finnish War between Finland and the Soviet UnionLeningrad: A Captivating Guide to the Siege of Leningrad and Its Impact on World War 2 and the Soviet UnionOperation Barbarossa: A Captivating Guide to the Opening Months of the War between Hitler and the Soviet Union in 1941-45Stalingrad: A Captivating Guide to the Battle of Stalingrad and Its Impact on World War II No nation suffered more losses during the Second World War than the Soviet Union. The figure most historians recognize as roughly accurate is twenty million. The exact figure is impossible to tally for a number of reasons: destroyed records, inexact pre-war records, Soviet politicization of the population figures before and after the war, and much more. No matter what the exact total was, what is known is that the Soviet population only recovered its losses from the war in the late 1950s. For those of you unfamiliar with WWII, the combined losses sustained by the United States and Great Britain were just over 800,000 dead. The Soviets lost that many people during the Siege of Leningrad alone. Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book include: Before the WarStalinism1938 and 1939InterludeBarbarossaWar of ExterminationThe Major BattlesAnd much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book include: The Grand Duchy of FinlandThe Finnish Civil WarBetween a Rock and a Hard PlaceThe Red MenaceNegotiations, "Refresher Training," and the Balance of ForcesThe Greatest Finn of All TimeHell in the SnowAnd much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 3 of this book include: Before the SiegeHorror ApproachesAttackCivilians and DefenseThe BattlefieldInside the CityInside the CityStalin Returns to His Old MethodsAnd much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 4 of this book include: Nazis and CommunistsInvasionAll Seems LostAnd much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 5 of this book include: Before the BattleFall Blau ("Case Blue")The Slaughter BeginsSoldiers and GeneralsSchlacht an der WolgaAnd much, much more! So if you want to learn more about the Eastern Front during World War 2, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Eastern Front during World War 2, then keep reading... Five captivating manuscripts in one book: Soviet Union in World War 2: A Captivating Guide to Life in the Soviet Union and Some of the Main Events on the Eastern Front Such as the Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk, and Siege of LeningradThe Winter War: A Captivating Guide to the Russo-Finnish War between Finland and the Soviet UnionLeningrad: A Captivating Guide to the Siege of Leningrad and Its Impact on World War 2 and the Soviet UnionOperation Barbarossa: A Captivating Guide to the Opening Months of the War between Hitler and the Soviet Union in 1941-45Stalingrad: A Captivating Guide to the Battle of Stalingrad and Its Impact on World War II No nation suffered more losses during the Second World War than the Soviet Union. The figure most historians recognize as roughly accurate is twenty million. The exact figure is impossible to tally for a number of reasons: destroyed records, inexact pre-war records, Soviet politicization of the population figures before and after the war, and much more. No matter what the exact total was, what is known is that the Soviet population only recovered its losses from the war in the late 1950s. For those of you unfamiliar with WWII, the combined losses sustained by the United States and Great Britain were just over 800,000 dead. The Soviets lost that many people during the Siege of Leningrad alone. Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book include: Before the WarStalinism1938 and 1939InterludeBarbarossaWar of ExterminationThe Major BattlesAnd much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book include: The Grand Duchy of FinlandThe Finnish Civil WarBetween a Rock and a Hard PlaceThe Red MenaceNegotiations, "Refresher Training," and the Balance of ForcesThe Greatest Finn of All TimeHell in the SnowAnd much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 3 of this book include: Before the SiegeHorror ApproachesAttackCivilians and DefenseThe BattlefieldInside the CityInside the CityStalin Returns to His Old MethodsAnd much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 4 of this book include: Nazis and CommunistsInvasionAll Seems LostAnd much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 5 of this book include: Before the BattleFall Blau ("Case Blue")The Slaughter BeginsSoldiers and GeneralsSchlacht an der WolgaAnd much, much more! So if you want to learn more about the Eastern Front during World War 2, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!