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Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the combatants, in its military kaleidoscope, it far surpasses by magnitude and intensity all similar human episodes."…
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In Britain - and in the West ion general - the First World War is thought of in terms of the trenches of France and Flanders - and for good reason. But the war was far bigger than that and the fighting in the East stretched across thousands of miles and involved millions of men. It was a front that reshaped the Continent and birthed a host of new, independent countries from the ashes of empires. Lloyd tells the story with passion as well as objectivity and takes you right into the heart of what was a cataclysmic struggle.
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