This is a fascinating book, and we need more like it on the subject of the Eastern Front, which has always been so much more of a potentially interesting subject than the Western Front. It is well written by a practised author. It has no photographs, or maps. The lack of photographs we can live with, but some maps would have been useful, we think. Nevertheless, the book loses little by these omissions, partly because of the way in which it is written. Essentially, Schindler proposes that Austria-Hungary lost their war in the first 6 weeks of the war, and never would have recovered. They lost their army, their way, and the war, on the Galician fields in those 6 weeks. Interesting.........