{"product_id":"the-eastern-front-a-history-of-the-first-world-war-by-nick-lloyd","title":"The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd","description":"\u003cp\u003e''The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly'' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading'' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A masterwork . . . This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***********\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43339309514826,"sku":"6323v","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6323v.jpg?v=1771897333","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-eastern-front-a-history-of-the-first-world-war-by-nick-lloyd","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}