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Great Battles: The Eastern Front 1914-18: Suicide Of The Empires

Great Battles: The Eastern Front 1914-18: Suicide Of The Empires

by Alan Clark (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the western front soon became bogged down in the mud at Flanders. But on the wide plains and forests of Eastern Europe the three great Empires - Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary - grappled in a series of battles involving millions of men and hundreds of miles of front. Shortly after the outbreak of war the Russian steamroller had lurched into Prussia only to be hurled back amind the marshes of Tannenberg. For the next three years the fighting swung indeterminately back and forth. This work describes the campaigns which provoked the downfall of three great empires and left the world changed forever.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 13 May 1999
ISBN 10: 1900624230
ISBN 13: 9781900624237
Book Overview: On the outveak of War in 1914, the armies of the waestern front soon became bogged down on a static front. But on the wide plains and forests of Eastern Erope three great Empires - Russia, Germany, and Astria-Hungary grappled in a series of titanic but little-known battles involving millions of men and hundreds of miles of front. In the first days of the war the Russian 'steamroller' had lurched ino Prussia only to be hurled back amid the marshes of Tannenberg. For the next three years the fighting swung indeterminately back and forth and the book describes in clear terms the campaigns which provoked the downfall of the three empires and left the world changed forever.

Author Bio
Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three vols) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by teh BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark. Alan Clark died in 1999.