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Dreams of a Great Small Nation - The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe (Hardcover)
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Dreams of a Great Small Nation - The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe (Hardcover)
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The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once
so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." ,Winston S.
ChurchillIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and
Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous
cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial
Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb, a small
group of Czech and Slovak combat veterans stranded in Siberia saw
an opportunity to realize their long-held dream of
independence.While their plan was audacious and complex, and
involved moving their 50,000-strong army by land and sea across
three-quarters of the earth's expanse, their commitment to fight
for the Allies on the Western Front riveted the attention of Allied
London, Paris, and Washington.On their journey across Siberia, a
brawl erupted at a remote Trans-Siberian rail station that sparked
a wholesale rebellion. The marauding Czecho-Slovak Legion seized
control of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and with it Siberia. In the
end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen
by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy
the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia.British prime
minister David Lloyd George called their adventure one of the
greatest epics of history," and former US president Teddy Roosevelt
declared that their accomplishments were unparalleled, so far as I
know, in ancient or modern warfare."
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