The Czech Legion 1914-20

The Czech Legion 1914-20

The Czech Legion 1914-20

The Czech Legion 1914-20

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Overview

The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts of the war. Since only the defeat of Austro-Hungary and Germany offered any hope for Czech national independence, they were amongst the most motivated and steadfast of the Allied forces. After the Bolshevik Revolution, they fought their way across Russia, captured the Russian national gold reserves and used this as a bargaining chip to force the Bolsheviks to allow them to return home. Today the Legion is recognised as the founding fathers of Czech nationhood. This very colourful force of World War I has never before been detailed in English and is illustrated with an astonishing array of never-before-published photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780964584
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 02/20/2012
Series: Men-at-Arms , #447
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 48
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

David Bullock holds a PhD in European Military History and has been an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Currently, he writes official histories as a military historian for the Department of Defence and is an adjunct Associate Professor at Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs. He is the author of New Vanguard 83 Armoured Units of the Russian Civil War: White and Allied and New Vanguard 95: Armoured Units of the Russian Civil War: Red Army

RAMIRO BUJEIRO has become a frequent and popular Osprey contributor for over ten years. He is an experienced commercial artist who lives and works in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His professional background includes many commissions as a figure illustrator and strip cartoonist for clients all over Europe and the Americas. His main interests are the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
Ramiro Bujeiro has become a frequent and popular contributor to Osprey since illustrating Warrior 23:US Marine in Vietnam 1965–73
(1998). He is an experienced commercial artist who lives and works in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His professional background includes commissions as a figure illustrator and strip cartoonist for clients all over Europe, the Americas and in Great Britain. His main interests are the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

National origins - neutrality and independence

Towards Nationhood 4

The historical background: Charles IV of Bohemia - the Hussites - the Habsburg Empire - the Dual Monarchy. Tomas Masaryk - Edvard Benes - Milan Stefanik - the Sokol movement

The Russian Front, 1914-17 8

1914-l5: the Druzhina - Austro-Hungarian desertions

1916: regiment and brigade

1917: the Brusilov Offensive - division and corps

The Western Front, 1914-19 20

1915: with the Foreign Legion at Vimy Ridge

1917-18: the Czech Brigade - Vouziers, Chestres and Terron

The Italian Front, 1917-19 23

1917-18: small unit actions - the Czech Legion on the Piave - Doss Alto

Russia: Revolt & Civil War, 1917-18 34

1917: Russo-Ukrainian entanglements

1918: isolation - confrontation with Red Guards - Trans-Siberian Railway campaign

The Siberian Garrison, 1918-20 38

Summer 1918: expansion - the Volga-Urals front - retreat

1919: with Admiral Kolchak - anti-partisan operations

1920: withdrawal to Vladivostok

Legacy 44

Further Reading 44

Plate Commentaries 45

Index 48

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