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Austria-Hungary
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First World War 1 I
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Russia
short pocket guide summary
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Tannenberg
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WWI WW1
Product details
- ISBN 9781841763422
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 168 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book unravels the complicated and tragic events of the Eastern Front in the First World War.
The author details Russia's sudden attack on German forces, despite her inadequate resources. A crushing defeat at Tannenberg was followed by Germany inflicting humiliation after humiliation on desperate Russian troops. For a while, those forces led by General Brusilov and facing Austria-Hungary fared better, but in the end this front too collapsed.
In this compact volume, Geoffrey Jukes describes how morale plummeted, the army began to disintegrate, and the Tsar was forced to abdicate - paving the way for the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917.
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. He died in 2010.
