{"id":34445,"date":"2024-03-24T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T07:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=263931"},"modified":"2024-03-25T06:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T05:11:36","slug":"ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"WW1\u2019s eastern front: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Nick Lloyd answers listener questions on Germany and Austria-Hungary&#8217;s bloody clash with the Russian empire from 1914\u201318 <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 24 March 2024 at 07:24 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>How did the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand lead events in Europe to spiral out of control so rapidly? Why was Germany and Austria-Hungary\u2019s bloody clash with the Russian empire during the First World War so brutal? And why has the fighting on the eastern front between 1914 and 1918 been overshadowed by its counterpart in the west? Speaking to Spencer Mizen, historian Nick Lloyd answers your questions on one of the most brutal theatres of conflict both in the First World War, and modern warfare as a whole.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-263931-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/eveasternfront-f103885.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/eveasternfront-f103885.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/eveasternfront-f103885.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Nick Lloyd is the author of <em>The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War<\/em> (Viking, 2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-eastern-front-a-history-of-the-first-world-war-nick-lloyd\/7598381\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Eastern-Front-History-First-World\/dp\/0241506859?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0#:~:text=Book%20overview&amp;text=In%20the%20second%20volume%20of,the%20collapse%20of%20three%20empires.\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty.\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?id=489797&amp;clickref=historyextra-0&amp;awinmid=3787&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-eastern-front%2Fnick-lloyd%2F9780241506851%23%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThrough%2520intimate%2520eyewitness%2520reports%252C%2520diary%2CItaly%252C%2520right%2520through%2520to%2520the#:~:text=Through%20intimate%20eyewitness%20reports%2C%20diary,Italy%2C%20right%20through%20to%20the\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nick Lloyd answers listener questions on Germany and Austria-Hungary&#8217;s bloody clash with the Russian empire from 1914\u201318 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":34446,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/ww1s-eastern-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Nick Lloyd answers listener questions on Germany and Austria-Hungary's bloody clash with the Russian empire from 1914\u201318","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/34445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}