The Eastern Front “lacked the claustrophobia of France,” Nick Lloyd writes; it had space “for cavalry charges and grand battles of manoeuvre.” The mode of fighting was of a kind that had ...

He was there to boost morale and hand out medals ... In the eastern city of Kramatorsk, right back in the thick of it, Chernyavsky told CBS News the war along the front line, which stretches ...

The first World War started with the assassination 110 years ago of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, yet the Eastern Front is little known or understood in the West. For understandable ...

But for the most part the eastern front is seen as a sideshow to the main event. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nick Lloyd, professor of modern warfare at King’s College London, shows just ...