0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (2)
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (2)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 4 of 4 matches in All Departments

The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War (Paperback): Graydon A. Tunstall The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War (Paperback)
Graydon A. Tunstall
R949 R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Save R71 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a definitive account of the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how Austria-Hungary entered the war woefully unprepared for the ordeal it would endure. When the war commenced, the Habsburg Army proved grossly under strengthen relative to trained officers and manpower, possessing obsolete weapons and equipment, and with the vast majority of its troops proved inadequately trained for modern warfare. Well over one million Habsburg troops mobilized creating an enormous logistical challenge of forging an army from the diverse cultures, languages, economic and educational backgrounds of the Empire's peoples. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how the army suffered from poor strategic direction and outdated tactics and facing a two-front offensive against both Russia and Serbia. He charts the army's performance on the battlefields of Galicia, Serbia, Romania, the Middle East and Italy through to its ultimate collapse in 1918.

The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War (Hardcover): Graydon A. Tunstall The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War (Hardcover)
Graydon A. Tunstall
R2,753 R2,378 Discovery Miles 23 780 Save R375 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a definitive account of the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how Austria-Hungary entered the war woefully unprepared for the ordeal it would endure. When the war commenced, the Habsburg Army proved grossly under strengthen relative to trained officers and manpower, possessing obsolete weapons and equipment, and with the vast majority of its troops proved inadequately trained for modern warfare. Well over one million Habsburg troops mobilized creating an enormous logistical challenge of forging an army from the diverse cultures, languages, economic and educational backgrounds of the Empire's peoples. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how the army suffered from poor strategic direction and outdated tactics and facing a two-front offensive against both Russia and Serbia. He charts the army's performance on the battlefields of Galicia, Serbia, Romania, the Middle East and Italy through to its ultimate collapse in 1918.

Written in Blood - The Battles for Fortress Przemysl in WWI (Hardcover): Graydon A. Tunstall Written in Blood - The Battles for Fortress Przemysl in WWI (Hardcover)
Graydon A. Tunstall
R1,097 Discovery Miles 10 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bloodier than Verdun, the battles for Fortress Przemysl were pivotal to victory on the Eastern Front during the early years of World War I. Control of the fortress changed hands three times during the fall of 1914. In 1915, the Austro-Hungarian armies launched three major offensives to penetrate the Russian encirclement and relieve the 120,000 trapped in the besieged fortress. Drawing on myriad sources, historian Graydon A. Tunstall tells of the impossible conditions facing the garrison: starvation, "horse-meat" diets, deplorable medical care, prostitution, alcoholism, dismal morale, and a failed breakout attempt. By the time the fortress finally fell to the Russians on March 22, 1915, the Hapsburg Army had sustained 800,000 casualties; the Russians, over a million. The fortress, however, had served its purpose. Tunstall argues that the besieged garrison kept the Russian army from advancing farther and obliterating the already weakening Austro-Hungarian forces at the outset of the War to End All Wars.

Blood on the Snow - The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 (Paperback): Graydon A. Tunstall Blood on the Snow - The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 (Paperback)
Graydon A. Tunstall
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the "Stalingrad of the First World War," engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg forces fought to rescue 130,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers trapped by Russian troops in Fortress Przemysl, but the campaign was waged under such adverse circumstances that it produced six times as many casualties as the number besieged. It remains one of the least understood and most devastating chapters of the war-a horrific episode only glimpsed previously but now vividly restored to the annals of history by Graydon Tunstall.

The campaign, consisting of three separate and ultimately doomed offensives, was the first example of "total war" conducted in a mountainous terrain, and it prepared the way for the great battle of Gorlice-Tarnow. Habsburg troops under Conrad von Htzendorf faced those of General Nikolai Ivanov, which together totaled more than two million soldiers. None of the participants were psychologically or materially prepared to engage in prolonged winter mountain warfare, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered from frostbite or succumbed to the "White Death." Tunstall reconstructs the brutal environment-heavy snow, ice, dense fog, frigid winds-to depict fighting in which a man lasted on average between five to six weeks before he was killed, wounded, captured, or committed suicide. Meanwhile, soldiers warmed rifles over fires to make them operable and slaughtered thousands of horses just to ward off starvation.

This riveting depiction of the Carpathian Winter War is the first book-length account of that vicious campaign, as well as the first English-language account of Eastern Front military operations in World War I in more than thirty years. Based on exhaustive research in Vienna's and Budapest's War Archives, Tunstall's gripping narrative incorporates material drawn from eyewitness accounts, personal diaries, army logbooks, and correspondence among members of the high command.

As Tunstall shows, the roots of the Habsburg collapse in Russia in 1916 lay squarely in the winter campaign of 1915. Packed with insights from previously unexploited primary sources, his book provides an engrossing read-and the definitive account of the Carpathian Winter War.


Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Ab Wheel
R209 R149 Discovery Miles 1 490
Microsoft Xbox Series X Console (1TB)
 (21)
R14,999 Discovery Miles 149 990
Angelcare Nappy Bin Refills
R165 R145 Discovery Miles 1 450
Fine Living Meta Office Chair (Black)
R599 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490
Hoover H84-7WD-ZA Wet & Dry Hand Vacuum…
 (1)
R799 R725 Discovery Miles 7 250
Mother's Choice Unicorn Flannel…
R599 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990
How Did We Get Here? - A Girl's Guide to…
Mpoomy Ledwaba Paperback  (1)
R290 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950
Dig & Discover: Dinosaurs - Excavate 2…
Hinkler Pty Ltd Kit R256 R222 Discovery Miles 2 220
This Is Why
Paramore CD R374 Discovery Miles 3 740
Cable Guy Ikon "Light Up" PlayStation…
R599 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490

 

Partners