Walls Closing In

<p>This book is the third in a series that summarizes World War I for general readers. The author's first two books---<em>Explosion</em> and <em>Roll of the Dice</em>---respectively covered the events leading to the war's outbreak and the conflict's first four months (August to November 1914). <em>Walls Closing In</em> addresses the period of December 1914 to April 1915. The book's principal emphasis is on the war efforts of Germany and Austria-Hungary the two nations' struggle to withstand the overwhelming combined power of the British-French-Russian alliance and the deterioration of the Central Powers' strategic and diplomatic situation in early 1915.</p>