Great fun to read: Stone is opinionated and at times brutal, and he sure has opinions on the conduct of war. But it's quite striking how little this admittedly short book actually tells you: for example the gas attacks and the 1915 battle of Ypres - one of the major events of the entire war - is...
Both Evert and Kuropatkin now disbelieved in the possibility of breaking through at all—indeed, Kuropatkin resigned in despair, to go and practise against Central Asian rebels the military talents that had been of so little service against Germans. Evert stayed at his post, though disbelieving in...
As German historians have pointed out, the statesmen in 1914 had thought in terms of a ‘cabinet war’, that is, one that could be turned on and off at the will of a few leaders. But with mass conscription, and the enormous loss of life and limb, sheer hatred of the enemy, and the emergence of a mo...