A general account of how Romania brought doom on its head in 1916 by attempting to grab Transylvania from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, only to bring firm German direction to that theater of the war. While I enjoyed reading what is a good campaign history I did find the historical horizon of the author a little constrained. Though this campaign is invoked as precursor to the mobile, all-arms warfare that is usually described as "blitzkrieg," one doesn't get much sense that the author is aware that speed of action and force of will was always a component of the Prussian way of war, and that Erich von Falkenhayn's previous operational behavior at Verdun was the anomaly. Apart from that I suspect that I would have been better off reading Glenn Torrey's general account of Romania in the Great War first. ( )