August 1914

Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712123
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August 1914: A Novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from the alienating viewpoints of historical witnesses. The sole voice of reason among the advisers to Tsar Nikolai II, Stolypin died at the hands of the anarchist Mordko Bogrov, and with him perished Russia's last hope for reform. Translated by H.T. Willetts. August 1914 is the first volume of Solzhenitsyn's epic, The Red Wheel; the second is November 1916. Each of the subsequent volumes will concentrate on another critical moment or "knot," in the history of the Revolution. Translated by H.T. Willetts.

Author : Bruno Cabanes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030022494X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August 1914 written by Bruno Cabanes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France. On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . . Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army advanced, spreading rumors that amplified still more the ordeal of war. Citizens of enemy countries who were living in France were viciously scapegoated. Drawing from diaries, personal correspondence, police reports, and government archives, Bruno Cabanes renders an intimate, narrative-driven study of the first weeks of World War I in France. Told from the perspective of ordinary women and men caught in the flood of mobilization, this revealing book deepens our understanding of the traumatic impact of war on soldiers and civilians alike. “An exceptional book, a brilliant, moving, and insightful analysis of national mobilization.” —Martha Hanna, author of Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War “This book deserves a wide readership from historians, critics and anyone interested in the catastrophe of war.” —Mary Louise Roberts, Distinguished Lucie Aubrac and Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison “The sounds, sights and emotions of August, 1914 are all evoked with exceptional skill.” —David A. Bell, author of The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

Author : Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
Publisher : London : Bodley Head
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August 1914 written by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn and published by London : Bodley Head. This book was released on 1972 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis Showalter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674620
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914 written by Dennis Showalter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a century-long record of impressive victories and a general staff the envy of its rivals. Germany's overall failure in the first year of World War I was surprising and remains a frequent subject of analysis, mostly focused on deficiencies in strategy and policy. But there were institutional weaknesses as well. This book examines the structural failures that frustrated the Germans in the war's crucial initial campaign, the invasion of Belgium. Too much routine in planning, command and execution led to groupthink, inflexibility and to an overconfident belief that nothing could go too terribly wrong. As a result, decisive operation became dicey, with consequences that Germany's military could not overcome in four long years.

Author : Christopher Clark
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062199226
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sleepwalkers written by Christopher Clark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict. Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative chronicle of Europe’s descent into a war that tore the world apart.

Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780140037395
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August 1914 written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1974 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel about the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia.

Author : Bruno Cabanes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300208278
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 14-Aug written by Bruno Cabanes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of a nation in the grip of war

Author : Anthony Arnoux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European War: August [1914] to March [1915 written by Anthony Arnoux and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August 1914 written by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140071221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August 1914 written by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a brilliantly evoked backcloth of Russian society, this novel follows the army as it advances into East Prussia to face catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Germans.