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

The Eastern FrontDrawing 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, Komarow, GorliceTarnow, and the Masurian Lakes.All along, he takes us int