The author begins by opining on the lack of general understanding or knowledge of the Eastern Front of the First World Word. This book was written to rectify that gap, which it does at a high level. It gives a history at the highest strategic level, tracking the Eastern Front from the outbreak of the war on through the later opening of the fronts in the wider Balkans, the Russian Revolution, and on past Brest-Litovsk until the November 1918 armistice nominally ended all fighting by the Central Powers. The author was all business and this book does the job well, but at times didn't feel like it was more than clinically plugging a dire hole in general knowledge of this front of the war.