Since 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, I decided to devote my free monthly books from the Kindle lending library to those dealing with The Great War. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Winston Churchill’s World Crisis Collection on WWI was available and slogged my way through all five volumes. Churchill’s writing is fluid, lucid, and detailed in this volume as in the previous four. “The World Crisis, Vol. 5” contains far and away more information on the other, might I say forgotten, fronts of WWI than any of his other volumes. I felt that he coverage of the Eastern Front was the real strength of this final volume. Fully recognizing that I am on very shaky ground criticizing someone of his stature, I felt that in several instances he engaged in self-aggrandizement and justification of his decisions when he was in government, especially Gallipoli. It seemed to me that in some instances he profited from the benefit of 20-20 hindsight. I was a bit surprised at the whitewash he gave Tsar Nicholas II.