highlandmac Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 7 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said: I'm keen to read more about the Eastern Front in WW1 but there's very little out there. In English at least. I tried reading Norman Stone's book about it, but it was quite dry and I gave up pretty quickly. Alexander Watson's Ring of Steel and his following book about a siege in a Polish city, that I'm not going to attempt to spell, were both excellent. Nick Lloyd has an Eastern Front book out soon, that I've pre-ordered. I'm looking forward to getting stuck in to it. Does anyone have any recommendations for Eastern Front WW1 books? A guy called prit butter has a a ww1 eastern front series,year by year 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandmac Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 3 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said: Yeah, I've read both of them. I did enjoy reading them but I believe serious historians look down their noses at Antony Beevor. His books are very readable but they do verge on sensationalism at times. I was actually referring to the First World War in my post above though. Its hard to find much about it anywhere. I could be way off the mark here, but I've always suspected that most of the soldiers in the Russian army, possibly the Austro-Hungarian Army too, were illiterate so there isn't many diaries or other source material that authors would use to research a book. Like I say, I could be well off the mark there but the fact remains that there's not many English language books about the Eastern Front in WW1. I think one of the problems was the russian&austro-hungarian empires ceasing to exist at its end,leaving chaos in it's wake so there were no official histories&people had more important things to do to survive than write memoirs;I've been to the hard to spell/pronounce polish city,(pryszmsyl is my stab at it today),given what an important battle it was especially for A-H,it's remarkable how little memorial there is there for their tens of thousands of casualties at that place,again signifying that for it's former citizens in 1918 there was more pressing business 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossilYM Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 On 03/03/2024 at 01:35, virginton said: The 'tyranny' invoked in this Covenanter propaganda being the possibility of a vile Papist being king as opposed to a appropriately staunch overlord that they could duly boot-lick right until the present day. Of all the fascinating episodes in Scottish, British Isles (read Norman Davies' The Isles for that btw) or European/world history, the Covenanters would be at the bottom of the pile IMO. ^^^^^ Big team found lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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