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The Emperor and the Peasant - Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire (Paperback)
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The Emperor and the Peasant - Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire (Paperback)
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There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history,
presented as two intertwined narratives in alternating chapters,
juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the
Eastern Front. Franz Joseph I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the
first European leader to declare war in 1914 and the first to
commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to
New York - where he fathered twins who were taken as babies (and
U.S. citizens) to his home village - before being drafted into the
army and killed in combat. The author interprets Franz Joseph's
view of the war from the perspective of the emperor and his
contemporaries, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicolas II. Mozolak's
story depicts the life of a peasant conscript in an army staffed by
aristocratic officers, and illustrates the pattern of East European
immigration to America. Both stories are enlivened with references
to the art and culture of the period.
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