In November 1919 Kolchak was advancing on the Bolsheviki in Moscow from the east and Danikin from the south, while Yudenich, Basil, (War and Revolution in Russia, 1914-1917) (Nevi York 1919) is by far the best single volunie on the Eastern Front; its author by ability and tact rose during the war from the position of divi sion commander of cavalry to be chief-of-staff and commander-in-chief until his arrest and imprisonment by the Bolshevilci; it discloses both die inner political and military motives of Russian leaders by one who was in a position to !mow; it seeks to justify Russia against Western critics; it unfortunately has no maps. Good sketch maps and narratives are to be found in such general histories of the war as Buchan, John, (Nelson's History of the War) (24 vols., London 1914-19); Simonds, Frank H., (History of the World War' (New York 1917—) ; The New York Times (Current His tory of the War) (monthly, 1914—) ; Morse, John, (An Englishman in the Russian Army) (London 1916), a vivid account of an escape ahead of Gertnan forces from Silesia into Poland in the early weeks of the war and of German atrocities; McCormick, Robert R., (With the Russian Army) (New York 191.5), enthusiastic portraits of Rtusian personalities by an American National Guardsman; Pares, Ber nard, 'Day by Day with the Russian Army' (London 1915), by a well-informed student of Russia; Washburn, Stanley J., 'Field Notes from the Russian Front) (London 1915) ; (The Russian Campaign, April to August, 1915' ; (London 1915); (The Russian Offensive, 5 Jtme to 1 Sept. 1916) (London 1916), volumes by an American war correspondent containing excellent photographs, but the military infor mation, owing to the Russian censorship, is slight; Dillon, E. J., (The Eclipse of Russia' (New York 1918), by a student of Russian philology, is based on part of Witte's papers and explains the diplomatic background of the war, German treachery a.nd the causes of the overthrow of Nicholas II; Wilcox, E. H., (Russia's Ruin) (London 1919), valuable on German treachery and Bolshevism in Rus sia; Wilton, Robert, (Russia's Agony> (New York 1919), an excellent survey of social, political, and military conditions by the Petro grad correspondent of the London Times; Grow, M. C., (An American in the Russian Fighting) (New York 1918) ; Stebbing, E. P., (From Czar to Bolshevik) (London 1918) ; Long, R. E. Crozier, (Book of the Rus.sian Canzpaign) (London 1915) ; Alexinsky, Gregor, (Modern Russia) (new ed., London 1915) ; (Russia and the Great War) (London 1915) ; Graham, Stephen, (Russia and the World War) (London 1915); Fraser, John F., (Rtrssia of
Today) (London 1915) ; Standing, Percy C., (The Campaign in Russian Poland) (Lottdon 1914) ; Frisch, Rene J., (Guerre de 1914-1915: Operations russo-austro-allemandes) (Paris 1915) ; Stienon, Charles, (La Guerre sur front Russe) (articles in the Paris Correspond ant, 1916-18, later collected in book form) ; Hedin, Syen A., (Kriget mot Ryssland' (Stock holm 1915), contains 400 pictures and 11 maps; Taslauanu, Octavian C., (Trois mois de cam pagne en Galicie) (Paris 1915), an interesting diary by an intelligent Rumanian, with a map, of his movements with the hated Austrian army frotn August to November 1914; Fried richsen, M. H., 'Die Grenzinarken des Euro paischen Russlands) (Hamburg 1915), good brief statistical account of the lands and peo ples on the Eastern Front; Ganghofer, L. A., 'Die Front im Osten) (Berlin 1915) ; Brandt, Rolf, (Fiinf Monate an der Ostfront) (Berlin 1915) ; Lindenberg, Paul, (Gegen die Russell mit der Armee Hindenburgs> (Leipzig 1914) ; (Beim Armee-Commando Hindenburgs) (Stutt gart 1915); Ganghofer, A. L., (Der Russische Niederbruch> (Berlin 1916) ; Reinhold, Karl, (Hindenburgs Siegeszug) (Leipzig 1916) ; Wertheimer, Fritz, (Ira Polnischen Feldzug mit der Armee Mackensen) (Stuttgart 1915); (Von der Weichsel bis zum Dines& (Stutt gart 1915); Niemann, Hans, (Hindenburgs Winterschlacht in Masuren, 7. bis 15. Februar, 1915) (Berlin 1915) ; Madelung, A., (Mein Kriegstagebuch) (Bdrlin 1915), a Swede's ac count of the caznpaign in Galicia and the Car pathians; Skowronnek, F. R. B., (Hindenburg, der Befreier des deutschen °stens) (Berlin 1915) ; (Ober-Ost,) a valuable official state ment of Hindenburg's ((Supreme Command in the East)) describing in detail the German or ganization of the conquered lands of the Letts, Lithuanians and Poles; von Michaelsburg, J., (Im belagerten Przemysl' (Leipzig 1915) ; Vic, Jean, (La litterature de la Guerre' (Paris 1918) gives on pp. 379-390 a valuable list of articles in French periodicals relating to the Eastern Front; Hinrichs, (Halbjahrs-Katalog) (Leipzig), gives a complete semi-annual list of all worics published in Germany; separate re prints of books on the war have been pub lished as (Deutsche Kriegsliteratur); Kerner, R. J., (Slavic Europe> (Cambridge 1918) is an invaluable bibliography in Western European Languages of the history of the Slavic peoples as a background to the war.