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 The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts
   The Eastern Front
     The Whole Campaign



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The Forgotten Front. The Eastern Theater of World War 1, 1914-1915

by Gerhard P.  Gross  

ISBN
9780813175431

Purchase Price
£30.00 (new)

Date Purchased
November 28, 2025

Publisher
University Press of Kentucky (2018, Lexington, Kentucky)

Notes
This book was translated from the German by Janice W. Ancker. The book is a collection of essays by prominent academics, military historians and other experts. The subject of the book is the Eastern Front - all aspects of it - during the first two years of the war. The essays are as follows: 1. Introduction: "The Eastern Front: Geopolitics, Geography and Operations" by Hew Strachan. Part 1: The Battles on the Eastern Front, 1914-1915 2. "Introductory Remarks" by Stig Forster. 3. "In the Shadow of the West: The German Conduct of War on the Eastern Front up to the End of 1915" by Gerhard P. Gross. 4. "Russia versus Germany: The Eastern Front of the First World War from 1914 to 1915" by Boris Khavkin. 5. "Of Bastards and Brothers in Arms. Practical Constraints and Resentments among the Central Powers in 1914-1915" by Gunther Kronenbitter. 6. Introductory Remarks by Jorg Baberowski. 7."The Creation of an Identity for the Modern Polish Nation in the First World War 1914-1915" by Piotr Selanta. 8. "The Germans: Russian Perceptions of the Enemy" by Hubertus F. John 9. "The Slavic Peoples: The Central Powers' Self Conceit and the Concept of the Enemy" by Peter Hoeres. 10. "All Quiet on the Eastern Front. German Literature and the Eastern Front in the First World War" by Eva Horn 11. "August 1914: Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Russian Wartime Literature of the Early Years of the War" by Birgit Menzel 12. "The Reality of War and the War Experience of Russian Soldiers on the Russian Western Front" by Igor Narskij 13. "The War in the East of 1914-1915 and the Experience of the German Military" by Hans-Erich Volmann. 14. "From Ober Ost to Ostland?" by Vejas Gabriel liulevictus. Part 3. The Culture of Remembrance of the First World War. 15. Introductory Remarks by Rainer Rother. 16. "War Exhibitions. Forms of Presentation of The First World War for the Homeland Front" by Christine Beil. 17. "Suppressed Remembrances. On the History of the Moscow Fraternal Cenetery" by Kristianne Janekz. 18. "The Unknown Soldier" by Rainer Rother 19. "The First World War on the Internet" by Gundula Bauendamm. 20. "Prologue to the "War of Annihilation". The Eastern Front of the First World War and the Problem of Continuities" by Rudger Bergien.