Blood on the Snow The Carpathian Winter War Of 1915

Name: Blood on the Snow The Carpathian Winter War Of 1915
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ISBN: 9780700618583

ISBN-10: 0700618589

ISBN-13: 9780700618583

Edition: 2010

Authors: Graydon A. Tunstall

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The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the "Stalingrad of the First World War," engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg forces fought to rescue 130,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers trapped by Russian troops in Fortress Przemysl, but the campaign was waged under such adverse circumstances that it produced six times as many casualties as the number besieged. It remains one of the least understood and most devastating chapters of the war-a horrific episode only glimpsed previously but now vividly restored to the annals of history by Graydon Tunstall. The campaign, consisting of three…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 5/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Graydon A. Tunstall teaches history at the University of South Florida and is executive director of the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society. He is author of World War I and its Effects upon World History, Planning for War against Russia and Serbia: Austro-Hungarian and German Military Strategies, 1871-1914, and a forthcoming volume on Fortress Przemysl.