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Suicide of the Empires - The Battles on the Eastern Front 1914-18

By: American Heritage Publishing

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (American Heritage)

Last Stocked on 10/1/2024

Product Info

Title
Suicide of the Empires - The Battles on the Eastern Front 1914-18
Category
Author
Alan Clark
Publish Year
1971
Pages
128
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x.5"
NKG Part #
2148161752
Type
Hardcover

Description

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the Western Front soon became bogged down in the mud of Flanders and it is these events that many people associate most strongly with the First World War – but its origins and the strategy which governed all but its closing months lay in the East.

In the wide plains and forests of the Eastern Europe the three great Empires – Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary – grappled in a series of titanic but little-known battles involving millions of men and hundreds of miles of front. It was the Germans, with their excellent equipment and intelligent leadership who dominated the battlefield, even when outnumbered. The Russian and Hapsburg armies moved across a truly Napoleonic canvas with huge masses of cavalry, infantry and baggage.

Shortly after the outbreak of war the Russian 'steamroller' had lurched into Prussia only to be hurled back amid the marshes of Tannenberg. Later defeats were caused by the Russian revolution itself with the downfall of the Tsar and the mutiny of their soldiers.