COLLISION OF EMPIRES: THE WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT IN 1914 (GENERAL MILITARY)

Book ID/图书代码： 00540813B66028

English Summary/英文概要： Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia clashed on a scale greater than the Western Front campaign to the Marne and the Race to the Sea in 1914.

Drawing on first-hand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of World War I on the Eastern Front, with the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia, followed by the Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia and the failed German advance towards Warsaw.

With the centenary of the start of World War I in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely re-discovery of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front. The fighting that raged from East Prussia, through occupied Poland, to Galicia and the Carpathian Mountains was every bit as bloody as comparable battles in Flanders and France, but - with the exception of Tannenberg - remains relatively unknown. As was the case in the West, generals struggled to reconcile their pre-war views on the conduct of operations and how to execute their intricate strategic plans with the reality of war. Lessons were learned slowly while the core of trained personnel, particularly officers and NCOs, in the armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia suffered catastrophic losses throughout 1914. Inadequacies in supply and support arrangements, together with a failure to plan for a long war, left all three powers struggling to keep up with events. In addition, the Central Powers had to come to terms with the dreaded reality of a war on two fronts: a war that was initially seen by all three powers as a welcome opportunity to address both internal and external issues, would ultimately bring about the downfall of them all. Prit Buttar, author of Battleground Prussia, provides a magisterial account of the chaos and destruction that reigned when three powerful empires collided.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1914年，帝国德国、哈布斯堡奥匈帝国和沙皇俄国的冲突规模超过了西线战役的马恩河战役和海上竞赛。

这本书根据第一手资料和详细的档案研究，生动地再现了第一次世界大战第一年东线的动荡事件，其中包括坦能伯格战役和东普鲁士马苏里亚湖战役，随后俄奥在加利西亚发生冲突，德军向华沙推进失败。

2014年是第一次世界大战爆发一百周年，《帝国的碰撞》及时地重新发现了这片被遗忘的战场上的艰苦战斗。从东普鲁士、被占领的波兰、加利西亚和喀尔巴阡爆发的战争，与佛兰德和法国的战争一样血腥，但除了坦能堡之外，其余的都是未知数。与西方的情况一样，将军们努力调和他们战前对作战行动的看法，以及如何将复杂的战略计划与战争现实结合起来。在1914年，德国、奥匈帝国和俄罗斯军队中受过训练的人员，特别是军官和士官的核心人员遭受了灾难性的损失。供给和支持安排的不足，加上长期战争计划的失败，使得三个大国都在努力跟上形势的发展。此外，各中央大国还不得不接受战争在两条战线上的可怕现实：一场战争最初被三个大国视为解决内部和外部问题的可喜机会，最终会导致他们的垮台《普鲁士战场》一书的作者，对三个强大的帝国碰撞后的混乱和毁灭进行了权威性的描述。（WYL)

Awards/获奖情况：“有见地，从众多的来源交织在一起的叙述很容易遵循，即使一个人不知道这个战区的战争……第一次世界大战一百周年纪念日正在进行中，世界各地的作家们正在撰写许多有关这方面的新书。这本书当然是其中最好的一本。”——军事遗产

“艰苦的研究和第一手资料推动了作者对发生在战争第一年的事件的叙述，一个世纪的保证。巴特尔精彩的精装书给他们在战斗中的碰撞导致了这三个帝国的垮台这一事实打上了一个惊叹号。”——玩具兵&模特图

“基于档案研究，这本书将吸引对第一次世界大战感兴趣的读者，特别是东部战线战斗的头几个月。”——《图书馆杂志》

“及时地重述了东线战争前几周的情况。”——第一次世界大战历史协会（www.www.1ha.org），2014年10月6 (www.ww1ha.org), October 6, 2014

“Insightful, drawn from numerous sources woven together into a narrative that is easy to follow even if one knows little about this theater of the war... The centennial of World War I is under way, and authors around the globe are writing many new books about the way. This book certainly ranks among the best of them.” --Military Heritage

"Painstaking research and firsthand accounts propel the author’s narrative of events that took place during the first year of the war a century ago. Buttar’s splendid hardcover book puts an exclamation point on the reality that their collision in combat resulted in the downfalls of all three empires." --Toy Soldier & Model Figure

"Based in archival research, this book will appeal to readers interested in World War I and especially the first months of battles on the Eastern Front." --Library Journal

About the Author/作者介绍： 普里特•巴特尔在加入英国军队当医生之前，曾在牛津和伦敦学过医学。离开军队后，他做了一名全科医生，最初在布里斯托尔附近，现在在牛津郡的阿宾顿。他广泛参与地方和国家层面的医疗政治，并在英国医学协会的全科医生委员会任职。他经常出现在地方和国家电视台和广播电台，就各种医学问题发表演讲，并定期向医学报刊投稿。

作为20世纪军事史上一位公认的东线专家，他曾写过广受好评的《普鲁士战场：1944-45年对德国东线的进攻（2010）和《巨人之间：二战中波罗的海的争夺（2013）。

在第一次世界大战爆发一百周年之际出版的《帝国的碰撞》是三卷丛书中的第一部，这是对第一次世界大战东线的权威性研究。

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he has worked as a GP, first near Bristol and now in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and serves on the GPs’ Committee of the British Medical Association. He frequently appears on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues, and contributes regularly to the medical press.

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