Stone, Norman. The Eastern Front, 1914-1917. eBook edition, London: Penguin, 2008. 427 pp. Originally published by London: Penguin, 1975. For decades, comprehensive English-language studies of the Eastern Front of World War I were rare. Thanks to the Cold War, Western historians had little or no access to Soviet archives, relying on whatever sketchy material (memoirs, scattered papers, Western reports) made its way out of Russia before the Iron Curtain fell. Thus even so acclaimed a work ...