The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Mr. Lloyd’s excellent book draws on new scholarship and expert studies to revisit the terrain and help us to grasp anew the significance of the fighting there ... As Mr. Lloyd emphasizes at the close of his masterly study, the disastrous events on the Eastern Front left a vacuum in Central and Eastern Europe that contributed to the next world war and to the Cold War that followed.
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In his preface, Lloyd writes that "the weight of history still hangs over these lands", but his treatment of Ukraine in the book is surprisingly perfunctory and does not tell us much about how the events of the first World War have directly affected the current war. That caveat aside, this is an authoritative book written by one of the best military historians around.
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Compelling ... Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of that troubled region up to and including the present.
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