An exemplary study of a much-neglected subject. Nick Lloyd is at the very top of his game...A fabulous historian.--Roger Moorhouse, author of The Forgers

Nick Lloyd searingly recreates the battlefields of the Eastern Front, Italy, and the Balkans in this taut, thrilling history in which he deploys all of his marvelous gifts to maximum effect: biography, political analysis, and operational military history.--Geoffrey Wawro, author of A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of the First World War and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

A huge achievement. Nick Lloyd's readable and compelling narrative takes his reader into the vast geographical expanses of Eastern Europe, Italy, the Balkans and Macedonia, showing how consequential these lesser-known fronts were to the struggle of 1914-18.--Alexander Watson, author of Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918

No one is better at recreating the drama of the Great War than Nick Lloyd.... Even specialists will learn a great deal from this book. A masterpiece of First World War history.--Sean McMeekin, author of Stalin's War: A New History of World War II

One of the great strengths of Lloyd's account, a masterly synthesis of sources from various countries, is that unlike many of the war's participants, he never lost sight of how it all began.--Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times (UK)

Nick Lloyd brilliantly pulls together the manifold strands and brings to life the dark realities of an often ignored but hugely important theater which paved the way for the horrors of World War II.--Adam Zamoyski, author of 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

The warfare that produced the fall of two empires and the socialist revolution that shook the world is presented here in all its horror and complexity by a master storyteller and an expert in the field.--Serhii Plokhy, author of The Russo-Ukrainian War

[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"

Exhaustive, highly detailed and meticulously researched.--Simon Heffer, The Telegraph (UK)

This is the story of the First World War's Eastern Front told on a Homeric scale. Nick Lloyd gives us not only a compelling account of warfare on the 'long front' from Riga to Thessalonica but also an intimate and disturbing portrait of the fighting taken from regimental histories, diaries, and the testimony of the dead.--Martyn Rady, author of The Middle Kingdoms

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Pub date: 2024-08-27

Length: 608 pages