The Eastern Front, 1914-1917

Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship Stones boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War - Niall Ferguson. Scholarly lucid entertaining based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and Russian sources it sharply revises traditional assumptions about the First World War - Michael Howard.