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.†â€"Economist
“Harrowing.… (E)xcellent.… (A) masterly study.†â€"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.