Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914

Prit Buttar

ISBN 10: 1782006486 / ISBN 13: 9781782006480

Verlag: Osprey, Oxford, 2016

Beschreibung

8vo pp.472, "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?

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 333961

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
• Verlag: Osprey, Oxford
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1782006486
• ISBN-13: 9781782006480
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: very good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Buchtyp: book
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Military History

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Inhaltsangabe

Drawing on first-hand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the 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 towards Warsaw.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level.

An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, his previous books include the critically acclaimed two-volume series on the siege of Leningrad: To Besiege A City (Osprey 2023) and Hero City (Osprey 2024). He now lives in Kirkcudbright in Scotland.