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WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORYS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020A masterpiece. It deserves to become a classic of military history Lawrence James, The TimesFrom the prizewinning author of Ring of Steel, a gripping history of the First World Wars longest and most terrible siegeIn the autumn of 1914 Europe was at war. The battling powers had already suffered casualties on a scale previously unimaginable. On both the Western and Eastern fronts elaborate war plans lay in ruins and had been discarded in favour of desperate improvisation. In the West this resulted in the remorseless world of the trenches in the East all eyes were focused on the old, beleaguered AustroHungarian fortress of Przemysl. The siege that unfolded at Przemysl was the longest of the whole war. In the defence of the fortress and the struggle to relieve it AustriaHungary suffered some 800,000 casualties. Almost unknown in the West, this was one of the great turning points of the conflict. If the Russians had broken through they could have invaded Central Europe, but by the time the fortress fell their strength was so sapped they could go no further. Alexander Watson, prizewinning author of Ring of Steel, has written one of the great epics of the First World War. Comparable to Stalingrad in 19423,... Alexander Watson The Fortress : The Great Siege of Przemysl Paperback Book