The Splintered Empires, Prit Buttar
The Splintered Empires, Prit Buttar
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The Splintered Empires
The Eastern Front 1917-21

Author: Prit Buttar

Narrator: Roger Clark

Unabridged: 22 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/24/2019

Synopsis

At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her army. This helped trigger the Bolshevik Revolution and a crippling peace, but the Central Powers had no opportunity to exploit their gains and, a year later, both the German and Austro-Hungarian empires surrendered and disintegrated.

Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.

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 David on November 13, 2019

It all came down to food. The First World War began with a mighty clashing of mass armies and Industrial-Age weapons. It ended with mutinous soldiers struggling to fill empty bellies. Prit Buttar may have thought, when starting this last part of a multi-volume series on the Eastern Front, that he wa......more

Goodreads review by Sweetwilliam on October 14, 2023

This subject will never get old. The inept royal families of Europe effectively ordered their own demise and ushered in a new form of government that was good at one thing: killing its own citizens. This is the third book about the war in the Eastern front 1917 -1921. I did not read the two volumes......more

Goodreads review by Joe on December 01, 2017

This is the final book of a four part series covering the Great War in the East. Unlike the other three, this one covers multiple years where the others only covered one year. Because of this, I feel this book is the weakest of the four and in many ways not as informative as the others. Too much hap......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on September 18, 2024

The concluding volume of Dr. Buttar's authoritative series on the Eastern Front of the First World War carries the narrative into the "pigmy wars" that continued to sputter on in eastern Europe after the fighting had ended in the west. There were civil wars in Russia, Finland, the Baltic states, fig......more

Goodreads review by Russel on February 01, 2022

An impressive work, somewhere in between accessible pop history and its esoteric academic counterpart. If you have little familiarity with WWI and particularly its Eastern Front, it's not the best place to start. It is heavy on people and on places that factor but little in most one-volume histories......more

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