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Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 by Prit Buttar (Engli
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- NA
- Publication Name
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- ISBN-13
- 9781472813183
- ISBN
- 9781472813183
- Book Title
- Collision of Empires : the War on the Eastern Front in 1914
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Europe / Eastern, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / World War I
- Item Weight
- 23.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 488 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1472813189
ISBN-13
9781472813183
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217083665
Product Key Features
Book Title
Collision of Empires : the War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Eastern, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / World War I
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Insightful, drawn from numerous sources woven together into a narrative that is easy to follow even if one knows little about this theater of the war... The centennial of World War I is under way, and authors around the globe are writing many new books about the way. This book certainly ranks among the best of them." "--Military Heritag"e "Painstaking research and firsthand accounts propel the author's narrative of events that took place during the first year of the war a century ago. Buttar's splendid hardcover book puts an exclamation point on the reality that their collision in combat resulted in the downfalls of all three empires." --"Toy Soldier & Model Figure " "Based in archival research, this book will appeal to readers interested in World War I and especially the first months of battles on the Eastern Front." "--Library Journal" ..".a timely retelling of the early weeks of the war on the Eastern Front." --WWI Historical Association (www.ww1ha.org), October 6, 2014, "Painstaking research and firsthand accounts propel the author's narrative of events that took place during the first year of the war a century ago. Buttar's splendid hardcover book puts an exclamation point on the reality that their collision in combat resulted in the downfalls of all three empires." --"Toy Soldier & Model Figure " "Based in archival research, this book will appeal to readers interested in World War I and especially the first months of battles on the Eastern Front." "--Library Journal" ..".a timely retelling of the early weeks of the war on the Eastern Front." --WWI Historical Association (www.ww1ha.org), October 6, 2014
Dewey Decimal
940.422
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations List of Maps Author's Note Dramatis Personae Introduction 1. The German War Machine 2. The Russian Steamroller 3. Austria-Hungary: the Other Sick Man of Europe 4. Over the Brink 5. The First Battles: Stallupönen and Gumbinnen 6. Crisis of Command 7. Tannenberg 8. The Illusion of Victory: Galicia, August 1914 9. The Battle for the Masurian Lakes 10. The Reality of Defeat: Galicia, September 1914 11. A Bloody Sideshow: The Serbian Front 12. Mud and Blood: Autumn in Poland 13. Lódz 14. The First Christmas 15. Disappointments and Illusions Appendix: Place Names Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires--Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany--remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely expos of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front--a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever. Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of the war, with the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia followed by the Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia and the failed German advance toward Warsaw., This account of the battles fought on the Eastern Front during World War I explores how delays in adapting to a modern war and inadequacies in supply and support arrangements brought about the downfall of all three warring empires., The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires--Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany--remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely exposé of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front--a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever. Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of the war, with the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia followed by the Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia and the failed German advance toward Warsaw., Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia clashed on a scale greater than the Western Front campaign to the Marne and the Race to the Sea in 1914. Drawing on first-hand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of World War I on the Eastern Front, with the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia, followed by the Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia and the failed German advance towards Warsaw. With the centenary of the start of World War I in 2014, "Collision of Empires" is a timely re-discovery of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front. The fighting that raged from East Prussia, through occupied Poland, to Galicia and the Carpathian Mountains was every bit as bloody as comparable battles in Flanders and France, but - with the exception of Tannenberg - remains relatively unknown. As was the case in the West, generals struggled to reconcile their pre-war views on the conduct of operations and how to execute their intricate strategic plans with the reality of war. Lessons were learned slowly while the core of trained personnel, particularly officers and NCOs, in the armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia suffered catastrophic losses throughout 1914. Inadequacies in supply and support arrangements, together with a failure to plan for a long war, left all three powers struggling to keep up with events. In addition, the Central Powers had to come to terms with the dreaded reality of a war on two fronts: a war that was initially seen by all three powers as a welcome opportunity to address both internal and external issues, would ultimately bring about the downfall of them all. Prit Buttar, author of "Battleground Prussia," provides a magisterial account of the chaos and destruction that reigned when three powerful empires collided., Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s and is the first in a four-part series from Osprey to mark the centenary.
LC Classification Number
D550
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