Product details
ISBN
9781841763422
Published
2002-01-25
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight
332 gr
Height
248 mm
Width
170 mm
Thickness
7 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
96
Author
Biographical note
After leaving Oxford in 1953 Geoffrey Jukes spent 14 years in the UK Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Colonial Office, specialising in Russian/Soviet military history, strategy and arms control. From 1967 to 1993 he was also on the staff of the Australian National University. He has written five books and numerous articles on the Eastern Front in the two World Wars.
In 1914 a series of complicated and tragic events saw Russia and Germany embark on a war that was to engulf the whole of Europe and be labelled by history as World War I. A tangle of international treaties that bound the major powers meant that, once started, widespread conflict was inevitable and on the largest and most costly scale yet seen by a modern Europe. For Russia, humiliated by defeat after defeat, the price was too high. Civic unrest forced the abdication of the Tsar and paved the way for the Bolsheviks to seize power. This is a concise guide to a complicated chapter in World War I history.
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A concise guide to a complicated chapter in World War I history. The book details the Russians' disastrous involvement in the war which would become a major contributing factor to the Russian Revolution.
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Introduction and Chronology * Background to War * Warning Sides * Outbreak * Caesar's Commentaries * The Fighting * Caesar's Centurions * The Wider Context * War's End * Conclusion
In this compact volume, Geoffrey Jukes describes the downfall of the Russian army, paving the way for the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917.
Product details
ISBN
9781841763422
Published
2002-01-25
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight
332 gr
Height
248 mm
Width
170 mm
Thickness
7 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
96
Author