The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21
by Prit Buttar /
2017 / English / EPUB
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At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the
Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was
closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's
ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the
Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her army. This
helped trigger the Bolshevik Revolution and a crippling peace,
but the Central Powers had no opportunity to exploit their gains
and, a year later, both the German and Austro-Hungarian empires
surrendered and disintegrated.
At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the
Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was
closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's
ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the
Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her army. This
helped trigger the Bolshevik Revolution and a crippling peace,
but the Central Powers had no opportunity to exploit their gains
and, a year later, both the German and Austro-Hungarian empires
surrendered and disintegrated.
Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War
I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic
events, but also the 'successor wars' that raged long after the
armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and
war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of
the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former
Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise
of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.
Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War
I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic
events, but also the 'successor wars' that raged long after the
armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and
war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of
the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former
Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise
of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.