Numerous side plots involving other characters, both on the battlefield and elsewhere, fill out this great historical novel. The unprepared army's failures mirror those of the Tsarist regime.
A historical novel about the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia.
Against a brilliantly evoked backcloth of Russian society, this novel follows the army as it advances into East Prussia to face catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Germans.
‘One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world’ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear.
August 1914
This book is centered on the first month of World War I. Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict.
August 1914