Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915

by Prit Buttar

Overview

The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are too often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of the clashes between Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia were greater than anything seen on the Western Front and ultimately as important to the final outcome of the war. Now, with the work of internationally renowned Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this fascinating story of the unknown side of the First World War is finally being told.

In Germany Ascendant, Buttar examines the critical events of 1915, as the German Gorlice–Tarnow Offensive triggered the collapse of Russian forces, coming tantalizingly close to knocking Russia out of the war altogether. Throughout the year, German dominance on the Eastern Front grew—but stubborn Russian resistance forced the continuation of a two-front war that would drain Germany's reserves of men and equipment. From the bitter fighting in the Carpathian Mountains, where the cragged peaks witnessed thousands of deaths and success was measured in feet and inches, to the sweeping advances through Serbia where the capital Belgrade was seized, to the almost medieval battle for the fortress of Przemysl, this is a staggeringly ambitious history of some the most important moments of the First World War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472819376
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	03/21/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	307,826
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. Since leaving the army, he has worked as a GP, first near Bristol and now in Abingdon. He has served on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He appears on TV and radio and contributes regularly to the medical press. Buttar has written Battleground Prussia, Between Giants, and the first two volumes of a four-book series looking at the Eastern Front in the First World War, Collision of Empires and Germany Ascendant.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Author's Note

Dramatis Personae

Introduction

1. The Combatants

2. The First Carpathian Campaign

3. Winter in Masuria

4. Springtime: Slaughter and Disappointment

5. Mackensen's Breakthrough

6. The Exploitation

7. Lemberg

8. Decisions and Departures

9. The Great Retreat

10. Volhynia: The End of the Leash

11. The Fall of Serbia

12. The Burden of War

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

This is among one of the better works on the conflict published during the centennial of one of the world's most destructive conflicts . . . Buttar does an excellent job revealing the struggles of both soldier sand civilians along with the efforts of national leaders to provide for them and continue the struggle.” —Christopher Miskimon, Military Heritage Magazine

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