Tessa Dunlop

The horrors of the Eastern Front

Nick Lloyd reinforces Churchill’s sentiment that the first world war in the East was ‘one of the most frightful misfortunes to befall mankind’

General Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf – a firm believer in war as the only means of upholding the Austro-Hungarian empire’s status as a great power. [©Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images]

  • The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War

    Nick Lloyd

    Viking, pp. 448, £25

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