Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918

Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918
Author Alexander Watson
Language English
Subject World War I
Genre military history
Publisher Basic Books
Publication date
2014
Pages xv, 787 pages, 16 pages of plates
Awards 2014 recipient of the Wolfson History Prize, the 2015 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History, and the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History
ISBN 9780465018727
OCLC 870986745

Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 is an award-winning book on World War I by Alexander Watson.

Critical reception

A reviewer for The Wall Street Journal described Watson's book as making "a truly indispensable contribution in allowing us to see from the inside out this disastrous alliance between Austria and imperial Germany."[1] Ben Shephard for The Guardian described it as "the most important of the current crop of books" on World War I.[2]

Awards

The book was the 2014 recipient of the Wolfson History Prize,[3] the 2015 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History,[4] and the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History.[5]

References

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