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The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917
David R. Stone
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Hardback. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 696.
A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters—and clarifies—that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of the Russian front during the First World War, this book corrects widespread misperceptions of the Russian Army and the war in the east even as it deepens and extends our understanding of the broader conflict.
Of the four empires at war by the end of 1914—the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, German, ... Read more
A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters—and clarifies—that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of the Russian front during the First World War, this book corrects widespread misperceptions of the Russian Army and the war in the east even as it deepens and extends our understanding of the broader conflict.
Of the four empires at war by the end of 1914—the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, German, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Modern War Studies
Condition
New
Weight
697g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700620951
SKU
V9780700620951
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About David R. Stone
David R. Stone is Pickett Professor of History at Kansas State University, USA. He is the author of A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya and Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926–1933 (also from Kansas) and editor of The Soviet Union at War, 1941–1945.
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