David Bullock

The Czech Legion 1914-20 (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Bujeiro, Ramiro

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts of the war. Since only the defeat of Austro-Hungary and Germany offered any hope for Czech national independence, they were amongst the most motivated and steadfast of the Allied forces. After the Bolshevik Revolution, they fought their way across Russia, captured the Russian national gold reserves and used this as a bargaining chip to force the Bolsheviks to allow them to return home. Today the Legion is recognised as the founding fathers of Czech nationhood. This very colourful force of World War I has never before been detailed in English and is illustrated with an astonishing array of never-before-published photographs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780964584
• Artikelnr.: 38350077

Autorenporträt

David Bullock holds a PhD in European Military History and has been an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Currently, he writes official histories as a military historian for the Department of Defense and is an adjunct Associate Professor at Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs. He is the author of New Vanguard 83 Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: White and Allied and New Vanguard 95: Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: Red Army. The author lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Inhaltsangabe

Historical background
the Czech independence movement in the Austro
Hungarian Empire · Czech troops in the Austro
Hungarian Army · Recruitment of Czech volunteers, and Czech former Austro
Hungarian prisoners, by the Allied (Entente) Powers · Czech Legion in France · Czech Legion in Italy· Czech Legion in Russian · The long journey home · Aftermath: nationhood
betrayal
occupation and persecution · Uniforms, insignia, weapons and equipment