The Great War Won: ...Should Prepare for War: Volume 2 - Softcover

Loyd, James Emerson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099057637X ISBN 13: 9780990576372

Publisher: James Emerson Loyd, 2016

Synopsis

As 1917 waned, the collapse of the old Russia, the Tsarist Empire, turned the world on its head. Its foes saw its weakness as did its friends, not least its allies in France and Britain, but the latter saw, too, a perverse blessing of sorts. Under Alexander Kerensky's ascendant Socialist government, the Entente no longer had to explain its collaboration with the worst of the autocratic regimes in Europe. For a time, Russia seemed revitalized, even retaking the offensive against Germany. It was not to be. After a bare half year of military futility and political unrest, in October(under the old Julian calendar, November under the western Gregorian), Lenin's small but organized band of Bolsheviks took charge, then quickly sued for peace with Germany. In the West, first the French, then the British had suffered horrendous casualties in ill-conceived offensives, the French in Champagne country, the British in Flanders. Mutiny infected France, dismay enveloped England and enervation pervaded the entire Western Front. When Germany proclaimed its resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in the spring of 1917, America, now freed of the yoke of association with the Tsar, entered the war against Germany but not the other Central Powers. Its new Associates, Britain and France, embracing the new world's seemingly unlimited resources, thought they could now see the beginning of the end. But American was months away from fielding an effective fighting force. The new year began unfolding in the East as Germany began settling matters on its own terms, ending its strategic nightmare of a war on two fronts, able to turn its full and fearsome attentions to the West...

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About the Author

James Emerson Loyd is a recovering architect and retired real estate executive, hardly apprenticeships to becoming an author of historical fiction. As an amateur historian of the twentieth century, he had long been fascinated by the First World War and how Germany's collapse in 1918 led to Europe's descent into totalitarianism. So, after reading and re-reading some Clancy and Crichton and Furst along with his histories, one day he decided to write his first novel. With a rough idea of a subject -- how that collapse could have been prevented -- he sat down at the keyboard and began writing. Before long, he found himself simply taking dictation from his characters as they grew into the storyline and more than a thousand pages later, he was done. A San Antonio native, he spent twenty-five years away from home then returned after marrying his high school sweetheart. They live with their two dogs (one French pointer, one German Schnauzer, appropriately) in their old neighborhood.

Edition details

• Publisher: James Emerson Loyd
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099057637X
• ISBN 13: 9780990576372
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 472