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The Eastern Front : a history of the First World War
In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war': the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires. Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium, yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody. Between 1914 and 1917, huge numbers of people were killed, wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length. Through intimate eyewitness reports, diary entries, and memoirs, Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balkans as a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and which sucked in Russia, Germany, and Italy, right through to the final collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918.
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The Russian Origins of the First World War
In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unleashed the war through policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East.
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On the Eastern Front
In graphic novel format, explores \"how the German generals brought about the collapse of the entire Russian army at the Battle of Tannenberg, how Lieutenant Ernst Enzmann of the Austrian Fifth Army was captured by the Russians during the Brusilov Offensive, [and] what happened when the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace is Russia, as seen through the eyes of an American journalist\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich
Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856-1929) was a key
figure in late Imperial Russia, and one of its foremost soldiers.
At the outbreak of World War I, his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II,
appointed him Supreme Commander of the Russian Army. From 1914 to
1915, and then again briefly in 1917, he was commander of the
largest army in the world in the greatest war the world had ever
seen. His appointment reflected the fact that he was perhaps the
man the last Emperor of Russia trusted the most. At six foot six,
the Grand Duke towered over those around him. His fierce temper was
a matter of legend. However, as Robinson's vivid account shows, he
had a more complex personality than either his supporters or
detractors believed. In a career spanning fifty years, the Grand
Duke played a vital role in transforming Russia's political system.
In 1905, the Tsar assigned him the duty of coordinating defense and
security planning for the entire Russian empire. When the Tsar
asked him to assume the mantle of military dictator, the Grand
Duke, instead of accepting, persuaded the Tsar to sign a manifesto
promising political reforms. Less opportunely, he also had a role
in introducing the Tsar and Tsarina to the infamous Rasputin. A few
years after the revolution in 1917, the Grand Duke became de facto
leader of the Russian émigré community. Despite his importance, the
only other biography of the Grand Duke was written by one of his
former generals in 1930, a year after his death, and it is only
available in Russian. The result of research in the archives of
seven countries, this groundbreaking biography-the first to appear
in English-covers the Grand Duke's entire life, examining both his
private life and his professional career. Paul Robinson's engaging
account will be of great value to those interested in World War I
and military history, Russian history, and biographies of notable
figures.
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The Eurasian Triangle
Even the best books on international history are ignorant of the secret war against the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union waged jointly by the Caucasian peoples and Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. This book explores and exposes previously unknown passages in Eurasian international history. Although the secret war ultimately failed in liberating the Caucasian peoples, the lessons of this Eurasian collaboration were not lost on the United States, which after World War II confronted the Soviet Union just as Japan had earlier. Washington copied the strategy of its former enemy and developed it further. The Eurasian triangle of Russia, the Caucasus, and Japan is a forgotten history of cardinal importance that, stretching from the Russo-Japanese War to World War II, influenced Western Cold War strategies. This book is also the story of a friendship rare in international politics between two unlikely partners unspoiled by political vicissitudes.
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War Land on the Eastern Front
War Land on the Eastern Front is a study of a hidden legacy of World War I: the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front and the long-term effects of their encounter with Eastern Europe. It presents an 'anatomy of an occupation', charting the ambitions and realities of the new German military state there. Using hitherto neglected sources from both occupiers and occupied, official documents, propaganda, memoirs, and novels, it reveals how German views of the East changed during total war. New categories for viewing the East took root along with the idea of a German cultural mission in these supposed wastelands. After Germany's defeat, the Eastern front's 'lessons' were taken up by the Nazis, radicalized, and enacted when German armies returned to the East in World War II. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius's persuasive and compelling study fills a yawning gap in the literature of the Great War.
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Fall of the Double Eagle
Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the battle for Galicia in August 1914-and the unprecedented carnage that resulted-effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire just six weeks into the war.
InFall of the Double Eagle, John R. Schindler explains how Austria-Hungary, despite military weakness and the foreseeable ill consequences, consciously chose war in that fateful summer of 1914. Through close examination of the Austro-Hungarian military, especially its elite general staff, Schindler shows how even a war that Vienna would likely lose appeared preferable to the \"foul peace\" the senior generals loathed. After Serbia outgunned the polyglot empire in a humiliating defeat, and the offensive into Russian Poland ended in the massacre of more than four hundred thousand Austro-Hungarians in just three weeks, the empire never recovered. While Austria-Hungary's ultimate defeat and dissolution were postponed until the autumn of 1918, the late summer of 1914 on the plains and hills of Galicia sealed its fate.
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