The Eastern Front

Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of that troubled region up to and including the present -- Margaret MacMillan * Financial Times * Lloyd has produced a strategic and operational narrative that proceeds chronologically without ever losing coherence as it switches from one sector to another . . . rigorous in its determination to remain comparative * Times Literary Supplement * An authoritative book written by one of the best military historians around -- Ronan McGreevy * Irish Times * Lloyd brings all his formidable skills to bear in The Eastern Front, blending an authoritative synthesis of the written literature with cutting-edge research to craft a gripping narrative . . . A masterpiece of First World War history. * Sean McMeekin, author of Stalin's War * 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 brilliantly pulls together the manifold strands and brings to life the dark realities of an often ignored but hugely important theatre which paved the way for the horrors of World War II -- Adam Zamoyski, author of Napoleon 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. On a vast canvas extending from the Baltic coast to the Mediterranean, Lloyd depicts the strategic seesawing between the alliances and its dreadful impact on the troops of the line. -- Geoffrey Wawro, author of A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of the First World War and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

Nick Lloyd is Professor of Modern Warfare at King's College London, based at the Defence Academy UK in Shrivenham, Wiltshire. He is the author of four previous books, including Passchendaele: A New History, which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives with his family in Cheltenham.