<em>Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I</em> by Alexander Watson

History is written by the victors, and at least in English letters the story of the Great War is heavily focussed on the British and American side. The story of the Central Powers is less well known. This book is an excellent cultural and in parts political history of the disasters that befell the antagonists in World War 1. You won t find much about individual battles and campaigns, but there s a…