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The unknown war: The Eastern Front. [Dusk of Hapsburg; Annexation of Bosnia; Towards the Abyss; Murder of the Archduke; Austrian Ultimatum; Fronts & Combatants; Declaration of War; Mobilization of th

by Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 ; [association copy: Sartell Prentice,1867-1937]

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Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931, 1931. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, first printing. xv, 396 p., [16] leaves of plates, 1 folded leaf : frontis., ports., maps (part fold.) ; 23 cm. OCLC 1555538819 brown cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Dusk of Hapsburg; Annexation of Bosnia; Towards the Abyss; Murder of the Archduke; Austrian Ultimatum; Fronts & Combatants; Declaration of War; Mobilization of the Eastern Armies; Austria against Russia; Battle of Lemberg; Invasion of East Prussia; Battle of Tannenberg; First Masurian Lakes; Second Round; Battle of Lodz; East or West?; Winter Battle; Beyond the Dardanelles; Fall of Warsaw; Reckoning with Serbia; Falkenhayn; Brusilov; Russian Collapse ; In what later became the fifth and final volume of The World Crisis, Winston Churchill turns his attention to the 'forgotten war' on the Eastern Front. His focus is the great rivalry between Russia & the Austro-German alliance during the years of the First World War, from the tensions over Bosnia & Serbia that triggered the conflict through the terrible battles on the Eastern Front to the final collapse of the Russian forces that triggered the Revolution. ; The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades. At once a history and a fi

  • Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931
  • Year: 1931
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Printing: first
  • Binding: hardcover

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