{"product_id":"the-other-first-world-war-9780750964050","title":"The Other First World War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinston Churchill called it the unknown war'. \u003c\/b\u003eUnlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 191418 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of movement spanning a continent  from the Arctic to the Adriatic, Black and Caspian seas and from the Baltic in the west to the Pacific Ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe appalling scale of casualties provoked strikes in Russia's war industries and widespread mutinies at the front. As the whole fabric of society collapsed, German money brought the Bolsheviks to power in the greatest deniable dirty trick of the twentieth century, after which Russia stopped fighting, eight months before the Western Front armistice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe cost to Russia was 4 million men dead and as many held as POWs by the Central Powers. Wounded? No one has any idea how many. All the belligerent powers of the Russian fronts were destroyed: the German, AustroHungarian and Russian empires gone forever and the Ottoman Empire so crippled that it finally\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865739342167,"sku":"9780750964050","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780750964050.jpg?v=1722275340","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-other-first-world-war-9780750964050","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}