In Alexander Watson's compelling new history of the Great War, all the major events of the war are seen from the perspective of Berlin and Vienna. It is fundamentally a history of ordinary people.

In this compelling history, Alexander Watson retells the war from the perspective of its losers: not just the leaders in Berlin and Vienna, but the people of Central Europe.

In The Fortress, historian Alexander Watson tells the story of the battle for Przemysl, showing how it marked the dawn of total war in Europe and how it laid the roots of the bloody century that followed.

"[This] new history retells the war from the perspectives of its instigators and losers. ... This is the story of not just their leaders in Berlin and Vienna, but above all the people.

'If you read one military history book this year, make it Alexander Watson's The Fortress' Tony Barber, Financial Times

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

The book is designed to provide information on all aspects of gardening, including fertilization, sowing, pruning, and diseases, so as to inspire people to begin their own gardens.