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4.3/5 Goodreads Publisher Basic Books Originally published 2014 Genre Military history Subject World War I | 5/5 The Telegraph Language English Publication date 2014 ISBN 9780465018727 OCLC 870986745 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages xv, 787 pages, 16 pages of plates Awards 2014 recipient of the Wolfson History Prize, the 2015 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History, and the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History Similar D‑Day: The Battle for Normandy, Churchill's Secret Warriors, Abducting a General: The Kreip, The Deluge: The Great, Revolutionary Russia - 1891‑199 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 is an award-winning book on World War I by Alexander Watson.
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Critical reception
A reviewer for The Wall Street Journal described Watson's book as making "a truly indispensable contribution in allowing us to see from the inside out this disastrous alliance between Austria and imperial Germany." Ben Shephard for The Guardian described it as "the most important of the current crop of books" on World War I.
Awards
The book was the 2014 recipient of the Wolfson History Prize, the 2015 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History, and the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History.
References
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA