Armies in the Balkans 1914-18 Contributor(s): Thomas, Nigel (Author), Babac, Dusan (Author), Pavlovic, Darko (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 184176194X ISBN-13: 9781841761947 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: Recent history should remind us that it was events in the Balkans which sparked off the Great War, with the assassination of the Austrian heir Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and the consequent invasion of Serbia by Austro-Hungarian armies on 2 August 1914. Nevertheless, the subsequent four-year war in that theatre is always overshadowed by the simultaneous campaigns on the Western Front. For the first time this book offers a concise account of these complex campaigns, the organisation, orders of battle, and the uniforms and insignia of the armies involved: Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian, British, French, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I - History | Military - Pictorial |
Dewey: 940.4 |
Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey) |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 7" W x 9.5" (0.35 lbs) 48 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Baltic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Recent history should remind us that it was events in the Balkans which sparked off World War I (1914-1918), with the assassination of the Austrian heir Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and the consequent invasion of Serbia by Austro-Hungarian armies on 2 August 1914. Nevertheless, the subsequent four-year war in that theatre is always overshadowed by the simultaneous campaigns on the Western Front. For the first time this book offers a concise account of these complex campaigns, the organisation, orders of battle, and the uniforms and insignia of the armies involved: Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian, British, French, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian. |