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Suicide of the Empires

Alan Clark

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the Western Front soon became bogged down in the mud of Flanders and it is these events that many people associate most strongly with the First World War - but its origins and the strategy which governed all but its closing months lay in the East.



In the wide planes and the forests of Eastern Europe three great Empires - Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary grappled in a series of titanic but little-known battles involving millions of men and hundreds of miles of front. It was the Germans, with their excellent equipment and intelligent leadership who dominated the battlefield, even when outnumbered. The Russian and Hapsburg armies moved across a truly Napoleonic canvas with huge masses of cavalry, infantry and baggage.



For three years the fighting swung indeterminately back and forth and the book describes in clear terms the campaigns which provoked the downfall of the three empires and left the world changed forever.

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : MAY 15, 2012
  • Imprint : Phoenix
  • Page Extent : 192
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781780221014
  • Price : INR 499
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Alan Clark

Alan Clark educated at Eton and Oxford read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three volumes) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by the BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark. Alan Clark died in 1999.

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