Presents the tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War.

'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' - Niall Ferguson. 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and Russian sources, it sharply revises traditional assumptions about the First World War' - Michael Howard.

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.