RUSSIA AT WAR: 1941-1945 by Alexander Werth. 1,100 pages. Dutton. $10. Though it ended months before the Atomic Age began, the Russo-German portion of World War II was in almost every way a conflict ...
The Eastern Front. By Nick Lloyd. Viking; 672 pages; £30. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in August; $42 Just 29 years old, Karl I was desperate to lead Austria-Hungary out of the first ...