A SSEES Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar with Nick Lloyd

In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the full story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the ‘unknown war’: the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires. Through intimate eyewitness reports, diary entries and memoirs - many of which have never been translated into English before - Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balkans as a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and which sucked in Russia, Germany and Italy, right through to the final collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918.

The Eastern Front 1914–18 (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443194/the-eastern-front-by-lloyd-nick/9780241992098)is a New York Times bestseller and was selected as the Best Books of the Year by The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, BBC History Magazine, The Times, and History Today. It was also named Book of the Week in The Sunday Times.

Speaker Bio: Nick Lloyd is Professor of Modern Warfare at King's College London, based at the Defence Academy UK in Shrivenham, Wiltshire. He is the author of six books, including the first two volumes of a groundbreaking trilogy on the First World War. He lives with his family in Cheltenham.

Chair: Thomas Lorman, Associate Professor of Hungarian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies

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