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The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands

The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands Hardcover - 2020

by Watson, Alexander

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The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands by Alexander Watson In September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the multiethnic fortress city of Przemysl, the Habsburg Empire's most crucial bulwark against invasion. For six months, against storm and starvation, the ragtag garrison bitterly resisted, denying the Russians a quick victory that would have won them the war. Only in March 1915 did the city fall, bringing occupation, persecution, and the first vicious anti-Semitic cleansing to befall twentieth-century East-Central Europe. In The Fortress, prizewinning historian Alexander Watson tells the story of the pivotal battle for Przemysl, showing how it marked the dawn of total war in Europe and how it laid the roots of the bloody century that followed. This is an unprecedentedly intimate account of the key campaign on the First World War's Eastern Front, in all its horror and human tragedy. Basic Books, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2020
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  • Title The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
  • Author Watson, Alexander
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books
  • Date 2020
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 511
  • ISBN 9781541697300 / 1541697308
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918 - Russia
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.414

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 02/24/2020, Page 0

About the author

Alexander Watson is professor of history at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I, which won the Wolfson History Prize and the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, and Enduring the Great War, winner of the Fraenkel Prize.