Books by Nick Lloyd
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
by Nick Lloyd
The Eastern Front is the second book in British military historian Nick Lloyd's trilogy about the First World War (the first book was about the Western Front). The book is around 500 pages long but it's highly readable. In it, Lloyd looks at the 'greater' Eastern front: from Riga in the Baltic down to Thessaloniki in the Aegean. This is a less well-known story to English readers than the battlefields of France and Belgium, and the focus on the war from the point of view of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires makes for very interesting reading. Russia lost more than 2.3 million soldiers in the war; the Austro-Hungarians over 1.1 million, only to collapse in 1918—with, as Lloyd writes in the preface, "the disintegration of both empires creating a human catastrophe of almost unimaginable proportions."
Note: if you're interested in reading about the Eastern Front in English, see also books by Alexander Watson, such as The Fortress.
The Western Front: A History of the First World War
by Nick Lloyd
The Western Front by bestselling military historian Nick Lloyd is the first volume of an epic trilogy covering World War I. It casts a terrible conflict often portrayed as futile in a new light and tries to bring it alive from both sides. Volumes about the Eastern Front and Africa and the Middle East are set to follow.
Interviews where books by Nick Lloyd were recommended
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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
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The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
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1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed
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Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
by Zeinab Badawi
New History Books, recommended by Sophie Roell
New History Books, recommended by Sophie Roell
A magisterial account of the Eastern Front in World War I and a lively graphic history of the Late Bronze Age are among the new books that’ll be out in coming weeks. Our running list of new history books, picked out by Five Books editor Sophie Roell.