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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
Af: Kevin J McNamara
Engelsk
Bogcover for Dreams of a Great Small Nation af Kevin J McNamara, 9781610394840
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Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9781610394840
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1610394844
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Udg. Dato:
29 mar 2016
Størrelse i cm:
16,9 x 25,3 x 3,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
29 mar 2016
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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
Af: Kevin J McNamara
Engelsk
Hardback 2016
Format:
Hardback
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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. Churchill

In 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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Sprog:
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Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9781610394840
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1610394844
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
29 mar 2016
Størrelse i cm:
16,9 x 25,3 x 3,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
29 mar 2016
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