Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution 1914-1918

W. Bruce Lincoln. Simon & Schuster, 1986. 637 p., hardcover 

condition: very good

As World War I begins, Russia is invaded by foreign armies and threatened by the terror of civil strife. The tsar and his military leadership conscript fiteen million fighting men byt supply many with neither boot, rifles, ammunition, nor food. In March of 1917, the Russian people, bled white by thrity months of armed struggle, drive the Romanovs off the throne and then embark on what is to become the great revolution of the 20th century. Lincoln renders these critical events of our time vividly and dramatically, bringing alive the personalities and the politics that formed modern Russia.

Delving into richly varied sources, the author of The Romanovs and War's Dark Shadow takes us on a turbulent, fascinating journey. Lincoln writes in the grand historical tradition of David McCullough and Barbara Tuchman, powerfully relating the history of modern Russia━━a story steeped in the human dimension, focused on the human factor.