![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. It dispels the myths surrounding a still relatively little-known aspect of the war, showing how inefficiency rather than economic shortage led to Russia's desperate privations and eventual retreat. An account of the Russian Front in the First World War. He also reinterprets the connection between the war and the chaos that followed, arguing that although fighting had almost ceased by the end o f 1916, Russia was still in turmoil - undergoing a period of change that would inexorably lead towards revolution. This groundbreaking study was the first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West and is now reissued with a new introduction by the author. In this now-classic history he dispels the myths surrounding a still relatively little-known aspect of the war, showing bow inefficiency rather than economic shortage led to Russia's desperate privations and eventual retreat. ![]() He taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bilkent. ![]() He was the author of The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize and published by Penguin), Europe Transformed and The Atlantic and its Enemies. Norman Stone's groundbreaking book was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West. '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. Great War is the first new historical overview of the Russian military on the eastern front since Norman Stones The. Norman Stone (1941-2019) was one of Britain's most celebrated historians. ![]()
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