Product Description

The book describes in clear terms the campaigns which provoked the downfall of the three empires and left the world changed forever

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #754597 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-13
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three vols) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by teh BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark. Alan Clark died in 1999.

Customer Reviews

As always, Alan Clark had something special to say.
Writing on the neglected other half of World War One in Europe, Alan Clark raises one of the most fascinating "What Ifs?" you could think of: what if the Brusilov Offensive had knocked Austria out of the war, and there had been a peace in 1916? Knowing, as we do with hindsight, what followed: the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of democracy in Italy, and the failure of the Versailles Treaty, it raises again the all important question: was World War One really worth all the sacrifice? Over to you Gary Sheffield!

useful summary
The Eastern front in World War One has been almost totally overshadowed in print by the Western Front. Any contributions to reverse this trend are therefore welcome, particularly as the campaigns were of a much more fluid and dynamic nature than the static trench warfare in France.