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With maps and contemporary photographs, this vivid and important account sheds new light on this human story.

About the Author

Clive Ponting is a Reader in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales, Swansea. His Green History of the World was an international bestseller, and his revisionist biography of Churchill raised a storm of controversy. He is the author of Armageddon, an analysis of the Second World War, The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century, World History- A New Perspective and Thirteen Days- The Road to the First World War.

Reviews

Lucid and comprehensive-a vivid essay on wartime blunders and the post-war bluster that tried to hide them
*Times Literary Supplement*

Exhaustively researched and scholarly-an exciting story and one that benefits from accounts written at the time by various soldiers and observers
*Guardian*

Between these covers you will find a wholly unpretentious, terrifyingly honest breakdown of a war-exceptionally harrowing and impossible to put down
*Manchester Evening News*

Ponting is both incisive and original in his account of what contemporaries called the "Russian War"
*Scotsman*