Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I had included peoples of German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Serbian, Bosnian and other origins, whose ambitions for independent nationhood were complicated by mutual religious and ethnic hostilities. In this fully illustrated study, Philip Jowett examines the organization and appearance of the forces involved in the internal risings, border disputes and full-scale wars that followed the break-up of the Empire, as the composition and frontiers of new national states emerged from the immediate chaos.
Principally, Poland restored and defended the nationhood it had lost in the 18th century, while the new republic of Czechoslovakia was established after hostilities against both the Poles and Hungarian communists. Austria became a republic, and its paramilitary Freikorps fought Slovenians in Carinthia and various Serbo-Croat forces. The Hungarian republic defeated a Hungarian Soviet Republic led by Bela Kun, and suffered temporary Romanian occupation of territory including Budapest, while Hungarian nationalists fought Austrian gendarmes. The colourful and diverse armies of these nascent countries are described and illustrated in this lively account of their foundational years.
Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Muu info
Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Introduction
Chronology
Armies and Uniforms: Austria Hungary The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes Romania
Weaponry in Central European Armies
Operations: Károlyis Government Army The Romanian invasion of Hungary
The PolishCzechoslovak War Hungary under threat The
HungarianCzechoslovak War The summer 1919 fighting The Lenin Boys
The Székely Division The Hungarian National Army takes charge Károly IVs
failed coups Uprising in Burgenland
Select Bibliography
Plate Commentaries
Index
Philip Jowett has written a number of books for the Men-at-Arms series, with a strong focus on under-researched subjects worthy of closer attention.
Adam Hook specializes in historical reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, Roman battle tactics and the modern Chinese Army.
