A major new history of WW1 that rewrites the story of the conflict from a new perspective, that of the German and Austro-Hungarian empires, surrounded by the Allies' ring of steel.
Alexander Watson is Lecturer of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, a British Academy Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Cambridge and, from 2011-13, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at Warsaw University. His first book, Enduring the Great War, won the Fraenkel Prize.
