History of the Great War
Author | : James E. Edmonds |
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Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : James E. Edmonds |
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Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : Graydon A. Tunstall |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700618589 |
The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the "Stalingrad of the First World War," engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg forces fought to rescue 130,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers trapped by Russian troops in Fortress Przemysl, but the campaign was waged under such adverse circumstances that it produced six times as many casualties as the number besieged. It remains one of the least understood and most devastating chapters of the war-a horrific episode only glimpsed previously but now vividly restored to the annals of history by Graydon Tunstall. The campaign, consisting of three separate and ultimately doomed offensives, was the first example of "total war" conducted in a mountainous terrain, and it prepared the way for the great battle of Gorlice-Tarnow. Habsburg troops under Conrad von Htzendorf faced those of General Nikolai Ivanov, which together totaled more than two million soldiers. None of the participants were psychologically or materially prepared to engage in prolonged winter mountain warfare, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered from frostbite or succumbed to the "White Death." Tunstall reconstructs the brutal environment-heavy snow, ice, dense fog, frigid winds-to depict fighting in which a man lasted on average between five to six weeks before he was killed, wounded, captured, or committed suicide. Meanwhile, soldiers warmed rifles over fires to make them operable and slaughtered thousands of horses just to ward off starvation. This riveting depiction of the Carpathian Winter War is the first book-length account of that vicious campaign, as well as the first English-language account of Eastern Front military operations in World War I in more than thirty years. Based on exhaustive research in Vienna's and Budapest's War Archives, Tunstall's gripping narrative incorporates material drawn from eyewitness accounts, personal diaries, army logbooks, and correspondence among members of the high command. As Tunstall shows, the roots of the Habsburg collapse in Russia in 1916 lay squarely in the winter campaign of 1915. Packed with insights from previously unexploited primary sources, his book provides an engrossing read-and the definitive account of the Carpathian Winter War.
Author | : James Edward Edmonds |
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Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : Brig-Gen Je Edmonds |
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Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2013-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845747183 |
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Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : Hugh Chisholm |
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Total Pages | : 1090 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
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Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Total Pages | : 433 |
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Author | : Stanley Washburn |
Publisher | : Helion & Company Limited |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781874622536 |
Contemporary accounts of the Russian army's campaigns on the Eastern Front during the Great War are few and far between. "Field Notes from the Russian Front" contains an extensive series of dispatches penned by the Times newspaper's 'special correspondent', American Stanley Washburn, whilst he was attached to the Tsar's army. The accounts focus on the Russian army during the autumn of 1914 and the winter of 1914/15, including the assault on Lemberg, the conquest of Galicia, Warsaw, and the two German invasions of Poland. The author's style is never less than lively and personal, although he is always careful to describe the wider context in which the events he was witnessing occurred. He frequently found himself virtually on the front line, and his descriptions of a number of the Eastern Front battlefields are outstanding. The text is accompanied by over 50 photographs. 2 further volumes of Eastern Front recollections were penned by Mr Washburn, and it is our intention to add these to the Library of the Great War at a later date. Key sales points: Superb eyewitness account of the Russian armies in the field during the autumn and winter of 1914/15, penned by the Times newspaper's 'special correspondent' / Lively accounts cover all aspects of the war and the opposing armies, including firsthand descriptions of actions, battlefields and troops / Accompanied by over 50 rare photographs. Helion Library of the Great War - a series designed to bring into print rare books long out-of-print, as well as producing translations of important and overlooked material that will contribute to our knowledge of this conflict.
Author | : Arthur Louis Day |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Science |
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