Carpathian Disaster: Death of an Army

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, Alexi Brusilov, possessed both the will and the genius to organise it for victory. In the summer or 1916 he was to seize the opportunity to do so which a jealous high command had hitherto refused him . . .