Eastern Front 1914-1917

Informationen zum Autor Norman Stone (1941-2019) was one of Britain's most celebrated historians. He was the author of The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize and published by Penguin), Europe Transformed and The Atlantic and its Enemies . He taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bilkent. Klappentext Norman Stone is Professor at Bilkent University. He was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford from 1984-1997. Zusammenfassung An account of the Russian Front in the First World War. It dispels the myths surrounding a still relatively little-known aspect of the war, showing how inefficiency rather than economic shortage led to Russia's desperate privations and eventual retreat. Inhaltsverzeichnis The army and the state in Tsarist Russia; the military imperative! July 1914; the opening round - East Prussia; the opening round -Galicia; the first war-winter! 1914-1915; the Austro-Hungarian emergency; the shell-shortage! 1915; the retreat! 1915; the political war-economy! 1916-1917; the second war-winter! 1915-1916; summer 1916; the Romanian campaign! 1916-1917; war and revolution! 1917.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Stone
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.07.1998
• EAN: 9780140267259
• ISBN: 978-0-14-026725-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, c 1910 to c 1919, General and world history, Battles & campaigns, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Battles and campaigns, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I