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It's a pleasure to welcome Professor Nick Loy, is a professor of Modern Warfare at King's College London,

the author of, some years past our conversation, The Western Front.

Now the next part, the Eastern Front. Now the next part, the Eastern Front, a history of the Great War

1914 to 1918. And this is very unknown to me and so it was a great pleasure to learn what had often been

mentioned as Russia versus Austria-Hungary, always the Austria-Hungarians were begging for German troops.

And in our conversation three years ago about the Western Front, there was also the attention

of these men Hindenburg and Ludendorf, would eventually show up in the Western Front and

be the drivers of the closing stages of the war when America got in. And their reputation, however, was built on their

conduct in the Eastern Front. So it was all a mystery to me. This new book, enormously

detailed and persuasive, introduces the Eastern Front where the Germans won.

That's critical to understand what we're about to describe.

Germany wins in the east. The defeat, as we remember it a hundred years or more later, was in the west.

Professor Nick, congratulations. A very good evening to you. We begin, however, not in a battlefield, but on the assassination

of Archduke in Sarajevo in the summer of 1914.

His death triggers a cavalcade of decision-making

across this vast map of Europe. Why? What was so brittle about Austria

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