The Fortress: Great Siege Of Przemysl Alexander Watson Penguin Books Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Winner Of The Society For Military History\ S Distinguished Book Award 2021Shortlisted Gilder Lehrman Prize History And British Army Year A Bbc Magazine 2019 Financial Times 2020\ Masterpiece It Deserves To Become Classic Lawrence James Timesfrom Prize-Winning Author Ring Steel Gripping First World War\ Longest Most Terrible Siegein Autumn 1914 Europe Was At War Battling Powers Had Already Suffered Casualties On Scale Previously Unimaginable Both Western Eastern Fronts Elaborate Plans Lay In Ruins Been Discarded Favour Desperate Improvisation West This Resulted Remorseless Trenches East All Eyes Were Focused Old Beleaguered Austro-Hungarian Fortress Przemysl Siege That Unfolded Whole Defence Struggle Relieve Austria-Hungary Some 800 000 Almost Unknown One Great Turning Points Conflict If Russians Broken Through They Could Have Invaded Central But By Time Fell Their Strength So Sapped Go No Further Alexander Watson Has Written Epics Comparable Stalingrad 1942-3 Shaped Course Europe\ Future Neither Nor Austro-Hungarians Ever Recovered Militarily From Disasters Using Huge Range Sources Brilliantly Recreates Long-Gone Empires Armies Cut-Off Community Sliding Into Chaos Itself Also Chilling Harbinger What Would Engulf Entire Region Coming Decades As Nationalism Anti-Semitism An Exterminatory Fury Took Hold \ You Read Make Watson\ Fortress\ Tony Barber Σελίδες: 368 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm