Joan McGuire Mohr

The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During World War I, a specialized Russian battalion comprised of ethnic Czechs and Czech and Slovak prisoners of war--the Legion--became a pawn in an international game of power and deceit. The Legion's detour through Siberia became the greatest human interest story of the war, chronicled weekly in the New York Times and New York Herald. More than half of the Legion's troops lost their lives as the evacuation of Czech and Slovak POWs through Vladivostok precipitated the murder of the Russian royal family and forced the Legion to act as protectors of the Russian treasury and the Trans-Siberian Railway while the White and Red armies battled. For political purposes, tales of the Legion's odyssey have been buried or expunged. This volume offers the seminal account of this hidden yet epic journey, shedding light on a fascinating but forgotten facet of World War I.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780786465712
• ISBN-10: 0786465719
• Artikelnr.: 33768855

Autorenporträt

Joan McGuire Mohr has served as a contributing historian at the Czech and Slovak National Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and lectured at the Iparmüveszeti Muzeum (Museum of Applied Arts) in Budapest, Hungary. She leads lecture tours into Hungary and Transylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Prologue     
Chapter 1:     
Chapter 2:     
Chapter 3:     
Chapter 4:     
Chapter 5:     
Chapter 6:     
Chapter 7:     
Chapter 8:     
Chapter 9:     
Chapter 10:     
Chapter 11:     
Chapter 12:     
Chapter 13:     
Chapter 14:     
Epilogue     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index