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Blood on the Snow
Graydon A. Tunstall
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Description for Blood on the Snow
Paperback. 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. This title presents an account of the Carpathian Winter War. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700618583
SKU
V9780700618583
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About Graydon A. Tunstall
Graydon A. Tunstall teaches history at the University of South Florida and is executive director of the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society. He is author of World War I and its Effects upon World History, Planning for War against Russia and Serbia: Austro-Hungarian and German Military Strategies, 1871-1914, and a forthcoming volume on Fortress Przemysl.
Reviews for Blood on the Snow
Tunstall has done a brilliant job of researching and presenting a readable analysis of the nearly forgotten series of icy mountain battles that destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Army and fatally weakened the hapsburg monarchy.""- Relevance: Quarterly Journal of the Great War Society; ""The book is a detailed case study, based on extensive primary source research, of an attempt to devise ... Read more