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Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 by Graydon A. Tunstall (Eng
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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Blood on the Snow : the Carpathian Winter War of 1915
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Science, History
- Topic
- Europe / Austria & Hungary, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / General, Earth Sciences / Geology, Military / World War I, Europe / General
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 270 Pages
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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 separate and ultimately doomed offensives, was the first example of "total war" conducted in a mountainous terrain, and it prepared the way for the great battle of Gorlice-Tarnow. Habsburg troops under Conrad von Htzendorf faced those of General Nikolai Ivanov, which together totaled more than two million soldiers. None of the participants were psychologically or materially prepared to engage in prolonged winter mountain warfare, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered from frostbite or succumbed to the "White Death." Tunstall reconstructs the brutal environment-heavy snow, ice, dense fog, frigid winds-to depict fighting in which a man lasted on average between five to six weeks before he was killed, wounded, captured, or committed suicide. Meanwhile, soldiers warmed rifles over fires to make them operable and slaughtered thousands of horses just to ward off starvation. This riveting depiction of the Carpathian Winter War is the first book-length account of that vicious campaign, as well as the first English-language account of Eastern Front military operations in World War I in more than thirty years. Based on exhaustive research in Vienna's and Budapest's War Archives, Tunstall's gripping narrative incorporates material drawn from eyewitness accounts, personal diaries, army logbooks, and correspondence among members of the high command. As Tunstall shows, the roots of the Habsburg collapse in Russia in 1916 lay squarely in the winter campaign of 1915. Packed with insights from previously unexploited primary sources, his book provides an engrossing read--and the definitive account of the Carpathian Winter War.
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University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700618589
ISBN-13
9780700618583
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Book Title
Blood on the Snow : the Carpathian Winter War of 1915
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Austria & Hungary, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / General, Earth Sciences / Geology, Military / World War I, Europe / General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Science, History
Number of Pages
270 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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"With bold, powerful brush strokes, Tunstall paints a picture of horrendous death in the Carpathian Mountains. Austria-Hungary and Russia each lost about one million men, making the battle more costly than the better known ones of Verdun and the Somme 1916. Meticulously researched and well written, this is military history at its finest. A must read."- Holger H. Herwig , author of The Marne, 1914 "Snow falls on the mountains, wolves howl in the distance, and two doomed armies learn the truth of the old adage, 'there is no enemy more formidable than nature.' An essential book for all World War I libraries."- Robert M. Citino , author of The German Way of War "A must read for anyone interested in the Great War's Eastern front."- Richard L. DiNardo , author of Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign, 1915, With bold, powerful brush strokes, Tunstall paints a picture of horrendous death in the Carpathian Mountains. Austria-Hungary and Russia each lost about one million men, making the battle more costly than the better known ones of Verdun and the Somme 1916. Meticulously researched and well written, this is military history at its finest. A must read.-- Holger H. Herwig , author of The Marne, 1914 Snow falls on the mountains, wolves howl in the distance, and two doomed armies learn the truth of the old adage, 'there is no enemy more formidable than nature.' An essential book for all World War I libraries.-- Robert M. Citino , author of The German Way of War A must read for anyone interested in the Great War's Eastern front.-- Richard L. DiNardo , author of Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign, 1915, "Tunstall has done a brilliant job of researching and presenting a readable analysis of the nearly forgotten series of icy mountain battles that destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Army and fatally weakened the hapsburg monarchy."-- Relevance: Quarterly Journal of the Great War Society "The book is a detailed case study, based on extensive primary source research, of an attempt to devise a viable strategy to meet drastically-changed, unforeseen conditions with impending crisis--and with an increasingly domineering ally."-- Parameters "In giving a full account of the winter war, Tunstall has rendered a vital service to our understanding of World War I. This is a must book for experts and novices alike."-- NYMAS Review, New York Military Affairs Symposium "Tunstall has done a brilliant job of researching and presenting a readable analysis."-- Camaraderie: The Journal of the Western Front Association, "With bold, powerful brush strokes, Tunstall paints a picture of horrendous death in the Carpathian Mountains. Austria-Hungary and Russia each lost about one million men, making the battle more costly than the better known ones of Verdun and the Somme 1916. Meticulously researched and well written, this is military history at its finest. A must read."-- Holger H. Herwig , author of The Marne, 1914 "Snow falls on the mountains, wolves howl in the distance, and two doomed armies learn the truth of the old adage, 'there is no enemy more formidable than nature.' An essential book for all World War I libraries."-- Robert M. Citino , author of The German Way of War "A must read for anyone interested in the Great War's Eastern front."-- Richard L. DiNardo , author of Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign, 1915, "Tunstall has done a brilliant job of researching and presenting a readable analysis of the nearly forgotten series of icy mountain battles that destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Army and fatally weakened the hapsburg monarchy."Relevance: Quarterly Journal of the Great War Society "The book is a detailed case study, based on extensive primary source research, of an attempt to devise a viable strategy to meet drastically-changed, unforeseen conditions with impending crisisand with an increasingly domineering ally."Parameters In giving a full account of the winter war, Tunstall has rendered a vital service to our understanding of World War I. This is a must book for experts and novices alike.NYMAS Review, New York Military Affairs Symposium Tunstall has done a brilliant job of researching and presenting a readable analysis.Camaraderie: The Journal of the Western Front Association, With bold, powerful brush strokes, Tunstall paints a picture of horrendous death in the Carpathian Mountains. Austria-Hungary and Russia each lost about one million men, making the battle more costly than the better known ones of Verdun and the Somme 1916. Meticulously researched and well written, this is military history at its finest. A must read.Holger H. Herwig , author of The Marne, 1914 Snow falls on the mountains, wolves howl in the distance, and two doomed armies learn the truth of the old adage, there is no enemy more formidable than nature.An essential book for all World War I libraries.Robert M. Citino , author of The German Way of War A must read for anyone interested in the Great Wars Eastern front.Richard L. DiNardo , author of Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign, 1915
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Background to the Battles 2. The First Carpathian Offensive, January-February 1915 3. The Second Carpathian Offensive, Late February-Mid-March 4. The Third Offensive and Easter Battle: end of the Carpathian Winter War Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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2010
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2009-052229
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