Nick Lloyd
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Professor of Modern Warfare, King's College London | New York Times & Sunday Times Bestselling Historian | Views My Own
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Well that’s nice to see! The Eastern Front gets into the
@thetimes
@TheTimesBooks
#bestseller
list this week! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy! 🔥🥂🍾
@VikingBooksUK
@PenguinUKBooks
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“When the barrage lifts, gentlemen.” Remembering the brave lads who went over the top on this day in 1916
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While everyone is lauding Masters of the Air, I think it’s worth mentioning how good Memphis Belle was when it was released in 1990. It was the first insight I had about how horrible the air war was in WW2 and the bravery of the aircrews
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To celebrate the publication of The Eastern Front
@wwnorton
I will be giving a signed copy of the book to a lucky American reader. All you need to do is repost this and follow me. The winner will be drawn randomly on Monday 2 September
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Thrilled to show you the cover to The Eastern Front, the second volume of my First World War trilogy!
@VikingBooksUK
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Really nice to see the first bind ups of The Eastern Front. Not much to do now. I also have some lovely pre-publication praise so thank you to everyone who has contributed
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Always a special moment for any author! It’s great to have The Eastern Front in my hands. It’s beautiful. Bravo to all at
@VikingBooksUK
@PenguinUKBooks
for making it happen!
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Finally got my hands on this last week. Really proud and excited to see this. Thanks to all the fantastic team
@VikingBooksUK
and all those who gave kind pre-publication praise. Out 4 March!
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@thehistoryguy
It is true. He was called Roman Stashkov. He took no role in the negotiations and seems to have enjoyed German hospitality. When he was asked whether he wanted white wine or claret with dinner, he responded: “which one is the stronger?”
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Publication day today. Thanks for everyone who has bought the book or written kind words about it! Thanks also to my publishers
@VikingBooksUK
and
@PenguinUKBooks
🙏
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This week I will be posting about some of my favourite books on the Eastern Front of the First World War! It is a really fascinating part of modern history and has been the subject of some truly ground-breaking research (just in case you need some Christmas gift ideas)
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To celebrate the paperback of The Western Front, I will be giving away a signed copy on 4 November. All you need to do is retweet this tweet to be in with a chance of winning!
@VikingBooksUK
#giveaway
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The landings at Gallipoli on 25 April were an incredible feat of courage and endurance - particularly as those units had to stay in the line fighting, often without sleep, for days after getting ashore
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The US edition of The Eastern Front will be published by
@wwnorton
@LiverightPub
in June 2024
#WW1
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Out today in the USA!! 🔥🍾
"Superb…so much has been forgotten, including the course of the war in the east across multiple theaters of operation and the strategies pursued by both sides. It is all this and more that
@nick_lloy
has resurrected in compelling detail." —Economist
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Between 1866 and 1917 Tsarist Russia executed 14,000 people (in total). Between December 1917 and February 1922 Lenin’s Bolsheviks executed (at lowest estimates) 28,000 people per year
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Wounded at the Battle of Loos, 1915
‘I was born in the age of the horse… and I end in the age of the jet plane. Nothing like this has ever happened in the world before.’
- Harold Macmillan reflecting on the change he witnessed throughout his long life, with William F. Buckley Jnr.
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Some lovely shots of The Eastern Front
@VikingBooksUK
@PenguinUKBooks
HQ in London. Can't wait to see them in bookshops next week!
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The Western Front is chosen for
@thetimes
best books to read this summer: ‘This impeccably researched book should finally lay to rest the idea that Britain’s generals were boneheaded ignoramuses’
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I will be signing books at
@Hatchards
in Piccadilly and
@WaterstonesPicc
on Thursday afternoon if you want a signed copy of The Eastern Front! Timings TBC
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Britain's WWI generals were NOT donkeys leading lions, historian NICK LLOYD argues | Daily Mail Online
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Echoes of General Grant in 1864: General Ben Hodges: “We spend too much time worrying about what the Russians might do. Instead, we should make them worry about what we're capable of.”
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Two of my favourite WW1 photos. I have them on my office wall
On 16 June 1915, Fred Fyfe took part in an attack at Bellewaarde, near Ypres. As he lay on the German parapet with a bullet in his leg, he pulled his camera from an ammunition pouch to take these photographs of the attack in progress. (
@I_W_M
Q 49750-1) 2/8
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Formed in Dec 1916, the Imperial Camel Corps was a brigade of four regiments, with up to 4,000 camels. It served in the Sinai and Palestine and was attached to the Anzac Mounted Division.
Was this the coolest unit in the British Empire?
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Wow. “Masterly… the First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle”: Really thrilled to be Book of the Week in the Sunday Times!
@TheTimesBooks
@thetimes
@VikingBooksUK
@PenguinUKBooks
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On the day that The Western Front is published I get to 1,914 followers 🤷♂️
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Sam Mendes is reteaming with Steven Spielberg for the World War I drama 1917.
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Demoralised Russian troops fleeing the battlefield during the Kerensky Offensive, July 1917
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Really pleased to get a copy of Sean McMeekin’s new history of communism. A really essential read! Out with
@BasicBooks
on 10 September!
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Very pleased and humbled to be promoted to Professor of Modern Warfare
@DSD_Kings
Thanks to all my colleagues past and present who’ve helped and supported me 👍
🌟🤗
@DSD_Kings
would like to congratulate our recently promoted colleagues
@DrAEFox
,
@tcgerman
, Amir Kamel,
@E_Karagiannis
,
@KienzleCSSS
,
@andreas_krieg
,
@nick_lloy
, Sukanya Podder, Cathy Scott, Chris Tripodi,
@DrKateUtting
&
@heatherwilly
🎉
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Passchendaele: A New History out now in paperback and audiobook!
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Nice early Christmas present from
@wwnorton
@LiverightPub
. Great to see the advanced reading copy of the book!
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I have finally managed to watch
#AllQuietontheWesternFront
. Here are my thoughts on it (SPOILER ALERT):
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This week I'll be tweeting about some of the major personalities and characters I write about in The Eastern Front. A major theme of the book is the difficult decisions commanders had to make during the war and the psychological impact it had on them
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Great to see Simon Heffer’s 5⭐️ review of The Eastern Front in
@Telegraph
: “exhaustive, highly-detailed and meticulously researched”
@VikingBooksUK
@PenguinUKBooks
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Really excited to share the front cover of The Western Front! Out March 2021 with
@VikingBooksUK
@PenguinUKBooks
#WW1
#History
#nonfiction
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Great to be on the cover of
@HistoryExtra
with a piece on the Eastern Front of WW1 and why it was so important!
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On this day in 1917 was the Battle of Broodseinde. It was probably the high point of Third Ypres and a great example of an effective ‘bite and hold’ operation utilising heavy artillery support
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The paperback of The Western Front is now out in the US with
@wwnorton
@LiverightPub
! 💥
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The Third Battle of Ypres opened on 31 July 1917. It would turn into the one of the most controversial battles of WW1 - find out the story of the battle in my book published for the centenary:
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Karl became the last Habsburg Emperor on this day in 1916. He told his ministers that he had one priority: to bring peace as quickly as possible. His story is told in The Eastern Front, out next year
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This week I handed off The Eastern Front to my publishers
@PenguinUKBooks
@VikingBooksUK
looking forward to working on it over the coming months to get it ready for publication
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OTD in 1917 was the First Battle of Passchendaele. It was the worst day in New Zealand military history when the attack against the Bellevue Spur failed. Colonel Hugh Stewart, a classics professor from Christchurch, wrote that his men had 'poured out their blood like water'
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Thanks to
@Tessadunlop
for her review in
@spectator
. The Eastern Front is an “epic achievement”: The horrors of the Eastern Front,
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Thrilled to read Margaret MacMillan’s review of The Eastern Front by Nick Lloyd — truth bombs
@FT
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Interesting email today: “Good morning sir, I had a question on the book you wrote, Western Front, I was wondering if you could tell me a summary of the last 5 chapters of the book, because I will soon have to return my book to the library, and I cannot find any summaries online”
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A Relieved Platoon of 1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, at Hebuterne, France c. 1916 by Fred Roe
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Dr Zareer Masani: Author and historian who challenged accepted versions of history dies at 75 | Mumbai news - Hindustan Times
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Great to see The Eastern Front in
@TheTimesBooks
50 great reads to bring to the beach!
Packing for your holidays? Looking for a read to enjoy in the sun? Our big, fat summer books guide is live - with 100 picks to choose from
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If you could make any movie or TV series about WW1 with an unlimited budget, what would it be?
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I’ve been to Corfu many times, but fortunately this time I was able to visit the excellent Serbian Museum, which chronicles the tragic fate of the Serbian Army 🇷🇸 during WW1
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A fantastic review! The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd review — the Great War generals were not donkeys | Times2 | The Times
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Thanks so much. I’m so immensely proud of the book and the team
@VikingBooksUK
always do such a spectacular job with everything. 👍
@nick_lloy
it’s gorgeous Nick. Just arrived today.
Congratulations on another banger of a book!!
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@simonmontefiore
@PenguinUKBooks
@VikingBooksUK
Wow what can I say? That’s so incredibly kind from someone I’ve long admired. I’m so glad you read it!
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Proofs have arrived... all 672 pages!
@VikingBooksUK
@LiverightPub
@hollands_diep
@rcwlitagency
#WesternFront
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For those interested in the Battle of Amiens, I wrote this for
@HistoryExtra
a few years ago: Amiens: the battle that broke the Germans | HistoryExtra
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Spent a brilliant day out with
@GHarward
at the Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and the Wilderness battlefields
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OTD in 1917: General Plumer renews the Ypres offensive at the Battle of Menin Road
#Passchendaele100
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President Obama is wrong. This is not an attack on 'universal' values, but on Western values
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Really sad news. His “First Day on the Somme” was one of the first books I ever read on WW1 and it remains a solid gold classic. RIP Martin Middlebrook
Very sad to hear the news that Martin Middlebrook has passed away. The author of the classic 'First Day of the Somme' his books were an inspiration to me, like so many others, and are ones I read again and again. He shone light on the ordinary soldier: gave them a voice, and a
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Very happy to see The Eastern Front in both
@TheEconomist
and
@Telegraph
summer reading round-ups: "a superb history" and "a masterful rethinking"
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Great day out at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, with
@ArmyComd160X
#BritishArmy
including the Turkish Martyrs’ Memorial, Helles Memorial, V Beach and Lancashire Landing
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Nick Lloyd's The Western Front is a magnificent start to a must-read historical trilogy' | via
@telegraph
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For the past week I have had the privilege of joining a group from
@TheRangerRegt
#BritishArmy
on a battlefield study to Jordan. Over the next few days I will tweet about some of the places we visited and the subjects we discussed in what was an amazing and informative tour!
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BOOK LAUNCH: Join the guestlist – The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd – Dockrill Room (K6.07), King’s Building, Thu 28 Mar 2024 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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The Third Battle of Ypres opened this day in 1917. It represents the modern impression of WW1, but as I argue in my book, far from being a futile waste of men, it put the Allies nearer to a major turning point in the war than we have realised.
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OUT NOW: The Western Front in paperback with
@VikingBooksUK
: "An enthralling read"; "a tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration"; "authoritative and fast-paced"; "an impressive achievement"; "brilliant"
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Delighted to be giving the annual Churchill lecture this evening at the Royal College of Defence Studies on Hundred Days: Reflections on the end of the Great War
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The Third Battle of Ypres began on this day in 1917. It would cause almost half a million casualties and be forever known by the terrible conditions in which it was fought
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Just caught
@BrexitTheMovie
: a truly horrifying expose of our loss of democracy and sovereignty
@Martin_Durkin
#VoteLeave
#Brexit
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British Residency on the banks of the Tigris in Baghdad, 1911, taken by Gertrude Bell. This became General Maude's headquarters after the city was taken in 1917
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Really looking forward to this!
📕 'The Eastern Front - A History of the First World War'.
Join Professor
@nick_lloy
to launch the second volume of his First World War trilogy!
🗓️ 28 March, 18:30 to 20:00
📍Dockrill Room
Register here👇
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Criticism of Zelensky’s clothes is sad. His military attire is an act of solidarity with his soldiers as well as a reminder that he is a war leader facing an existential threat. Until the war is won he cannot rest
Thousands of 🇺🇦 soldiers wade through mud up to their knees, freezing to the bone in trenches risking their own lives to defend the freedom of others - it is to them that the greatest respect is due - Zelensky's battle-dress carries precisely this message.
You're welcome!
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"An extraordinary achievement": The Eastern Front: A history of the First World War via @
@read_the_past
@MilHistMag
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First up (in no particular order): Norman Stone’s The Eastern Front was a deserved winner of the Wolfson Prize when it was published in 1975. It has remained a classic account of the war between Austria, Germany and Russia, which exposes many of the myths that have grown up
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This is absolutely true (and the same for WW1 as well)
Put simply, we should be reading and writing more WWII history — not less. We should be reading it with eyes to see how war invariably demands hard choices that encompass military policy, economic policy, defense-industrial policy, and manpower. And we should read it to see how
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The Western Front: A History of the First World War | National Army Museum
@NAM_London
@VikingBooksUK
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Thanks Grant. Hope you enjoy! 👍
I feel lucky to be among the first to have a copy of The Eastern Front by
@nick_lloy
on this side of "the pond." (It doesn't come out in the USA for some months yet.) I can't wait to start reading it!
#SMH2024
@SMH_Historians
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In London for a seminar with the First World War studies research group
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