Eastern Front 1914-1917
by Norman Stone
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Author: Norman StoneEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-01
ISBN: 0140267255
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Penguin Global
Book Reviews of Eastern Front 1914-1917
Book Review: Detailed, but not quite the book that I thought it would be
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this book believing it to be a concise, scholarly account of the combat on the Eastern Front during the Great War. If this is the type of book you are looking for, I suggest that you carefully read this and other reviews. The title of this book is somewhat misleading as this is really a book about the Russian war time economy, it's relationship to the fighting on the Eastern Front, and how military, political, and economic events lead to the collapse of the Russian army and the Revolution in 1917. Some of the other reviews explain this in more detail (I'm not going to repeat it), but check them out before you buy. If this is in fact what you are looking for, I would highly recommend this book. This is NOT a balanced account of the military campaigns of 1914-1917 in spite of the title. If you are looking for a general military history, keep searching. Stone has some surprising, but well documented, conclusions. His most important is, I believe, the fact that in economic terms, Russia was not the backward economy that is commonly believed. He also claims that, contrary to many Western observers at the time, there was no value to the notion that the West (i.e. Britain and France) could have more effectively utilized supplies wasted in the quagmire in France by shipping them to Russia. Russia's military problems in the Great War had less to do with purely economic issues like delivery of shells and rifles, but more with bureaucratic and political rivalries in the government and military that created inertia and needless internal competition. There is a great deal of information about the military campaings from the German/Austrian side, but this is definitely not the focus of the book. One thing really annoyed me about Stone's writing style. He tries to insult virtually every major participant on all sides. You'ld think after reading Stone's account that everyone (Germans included) were almost totally incompetent (maybe they were?). One final point, this is definitely a scholarly work, it is dense and filled with information. I can only recommend this to the most serious student of the era.
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