The Eastern Front

This masterly history makes well-known events feel refreshingly unfamiliar . . . 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 loses sight of how it all began -- Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times

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

Nick Lloyd reminds us in The Eastern Front, his . . . highly-detailed and meticulously researched book, the consequences of the fighting in the central and south-eastern European theatres were profound for the future of the continent – indeed, of the world -- Simon Heffer Daily Telegraph

A masterwork. Beautifully written. Astonishing scholarship. Amazing span of coverage. This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History

A professor of modern warfare shows how the first world war redrew the world map. The first deep analysis of the Eastern Front in English in nearly fifty years -- Books of the Year Economist

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

Nothing was ever quiet on the Eastern Front as is vividly demonstrated in Nick Lloyd’s magisterial history of World War I waged in the fields, mountains, and marshes of eastern Europe. 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