| Description |
1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Prologue: the Habsburg Empire and the Great War -- The Emperor in Vienna -- The peasant in Krajne -- The Emperor's subjects -- The peasant's voyage -- Imperial ignorance -- Peasants in passage -- Imperial deciders -- Peasants under arms -- Imperial armies -- Peasants in peril -- Imperial irrelevance -- Peasants in war -- Imperial losses -- Peasant gains -- Epilogue: immigration and self-determination |
| Summary |
There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat. The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak's story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Habsburg, House of.
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Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916
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Mozolák, Samuel
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Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916 |
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Habsburg, House of |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Austria
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military campaigns
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Austria
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Eastern Front (World War (1914-1918))
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476631189 |
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1476631182 |
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