Carpathian Disaster (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Campaign Book, No. 18)

159 pp. The Russian Army in the First World War--brave but badly-led and only half equipped--had suffered defeat after defeat during two years of agonising battle. One general alone, Alexei Brusilov, possessed both the will and the genius to organise it for victory. In the summer of 1916 he was to seize the opportunity to do so which a jealous high command had hitherto refused him...