The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts The Eastern Front The Galician Campaign of 1914 and Subsequently
RCC7387
Fall of The Double Eagle. The Battle for Galicia and the Defence of Austria-Hungary
ISBN
9781612347653
Purchase Price
£25.00 (new)
Date Purchased
August 10, 2016
Publisher
Potomac Books, (Univ of Nebraska Press) (2015, Lincoln, Nebraska)
Notes
This is a fascinating book, and we need more like it on the subject of the Eastern Front, which has always been so much more of a potentially interesting subject than the Western Front. It is well written by a practised author. It has no photographs, or maps. The lack of photographs we can live with, but some maps would have been useful, we think. Nevertheless, the book loses little by these omissions, partly because of the way in which it is written. Essentially, Schindler proposes that Austria-Hungary lost their war in the first 6 weeks of the war, and never would have recovered. They lost their army, their way, and the war, on the Galician fields in those 6 weeks. Interesting.........
9781612347653
Purchase Price
£25.00 (new)
Date Purchased
August 10, 2016
Publisher
Potomac Books, (Univ of Nebraska Press) (2015, Lincoln, Nebraska)
Notes
This is a fascinating book, and we need more like it on the subject of the Eastern Front, which has always been so much more of a potentially interesting subject than the Western Front. It is well written by a practised author. It has no photographs, or maps. The lack of photographs we can live with, but some maps would have been useful, we think. Nevertheless, the book loses little by these omissions, partly because of the way in which it is written. Essentially, Schindler proposes that Austria-Hungary lost their war in the first 6 weeks of the war, and never would have recovered. They lost their army, their way, and the war, on the Galician fields in those 6 weeks. Interesting.........
