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Traveling through the fragmented Balkans and corrupt Russia, through a century of time, you can personally experience the living plight of ordinary people under the grand historical scene. Reed provides a vivid and detailed account of this almost forgotten corner of the war's Eastern Front - the ethnically, religiously, culturally and geographically fragmented Balkans. He neither cares about the game between the tsar and the sultan, nor sticks to the victory or defeat of the momentary battle. Instead, he focuses on ordinary people who were also involved in this conflict but never left their names. He strives to make readers see the ordinary and vivid people and things in the war, but they were ultimately sacrificed. This slowly unfolding picture freezes the Eastern Front battlefield in 1915, allowing readers to experience first-hand the survival plight of ordinary people under the grand historical scene through a century of time.