Yet as Nick Lloyd reminds us in The Eastern Front, his exhaustive ... the so-called “blank cheque” to its allies in July 1914 to go ahead and do what it felt it must to gain that revenge.

Indeed, today’s war in Ukraine follows in some ways from the catastrophe of 1914. But Mr. Lloyd mostly wants to tell the ...

There are three chapters on Russian campaigns in 1914, the disastrous offensive into East Prussia ... and look after the Home Front. Despite this, the army held together rather well until the economy ...