Название: Dreams of a Great Small Nation
Автор: Kevin J McNamara
Издательство: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610394844
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 4,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.