Table of Contents

The army and the state in Tsarist Russia; the military imperative, July 1914; the opening round - East Prussia; the opening round -Galicia; the first war-winter, 1914-1915; the Austro-Hungarian emergency; the shell-shortage, 1915; the retreat, 1915; the political war-economy, 1916-1917; the second war-winter, 1915-1916; summer 1916; the Romanian campaign, 1916-1917; war and revolution, 1917.

About the Author

Norman Stone is Professor at Bilkent University. He was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford from 1984-1997.

Reviews

"A classic account. . . that even after thirty years remains essential reading." --Sunday Times

"Fills an enormous gap in our knowledge and understanding of the Great War." --Sunday Telegraph

"One of the outstanding historians of our age." --Spectator