Collision of Empires, Prit Buttar
Collision of Empires, Prit Buttar
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Collision of Empires
The War on the Eastern Front in 1914

Author: Prit Buttar

Narrator: Roger Clark

Unabridged: 21 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/26/2017

Synopsis

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires—Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany—remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War.

With the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely exposé of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front—a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever. Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of the war, with the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia followed by the Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia and the failed German advance toward Warsaw.

About Prit Buttar

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He appeared from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues, and contributed regularly to the medical press.

An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, Buttar's books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21. He lives in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abeselom

‘’By the end of the war, the conflict had consumed the empires of Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary. The splintering of these empires created a patchwork of nations, from Finland and Estonia in the north to Yugoslavia in the south, sowing the seeds for conflicts that continued for the rest of t......more

Goodreads review by Bryan

Those of us interested in World War One have needed a book like this for a very long time. Here's the problem. Most Western accounts of WWI overemphasize the western front. In history and popular culture the planetary cataclysm of 1914-1918 narrows down to the understandably fascinating story of Germ......more

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