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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The American contribution to WWI is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet is largely overlooked by history. In Sons of Freedom, Wawro presents the American troops who took up arms across the Atlantic and ensured the Allies' victory. Historians have long dismissed the American war effort as too little too late: a delayed U.S. Army -- though rich in men and matériel -- fought a halting battle that was not decisive. The Allied victory,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts...
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