Forgotten Wars

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'Only recently, historiography has re-discovered the Eastern Front of the Great War. This brilliant volume not only examines this untold story of the war itself comprehensively, but it pictures how people in Eastern Europe - soldiers and civilians - experienced it. A must-read for any scholar interested in the First World War.' Jochen Boehler, Friedrich Schiller University Jena 'Kaleidoscopic, narrated with the immediacy of a hand-held camera, Forgotten Wars offers a fresh and compelling panorama of the Great War in Central and Eastern Europe. This magisterial history by two outstanding Polish scholars, lucidly rendered in Jasper Tilbury's crisp and vivid translation, deserves to find a wide audience.' Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge 'The Eastern front was marginalized in the general historiography of the World War I, and the Western front still dominates the European cultural memory. In this brilliant book, Borodziej and Gorny bring the Eastern front back and combine new academic approaches towards the military, social, political and cultural history.' Boris Kolonitskii, European University at St Petersburg 'Forgotten Wars recovers a long neglected, yet deeply transformative history of people living and dying on the Eastern Front. Bringing to light the shared experience of senseless death, disease and hunger-driven misery that made that old military and political hierarchies obsolete, the authors help us to imagine how shattering the experience of the Great War was for ordinary soldiers and civilians.' Malgorzata Mazurek, Columbia University 'Of all the new histories of the First World War, this is the one that is the one that serious readers should pick up first. This is a new synthesis, bringing together the entire region in all of its variety, exploring the history of the empires and the experiences of the people. It will be discussed for many years to come.' Timothy Snyder, Yale University 'A seminal work of meticulous historical research that is as impressively informative as it is exceptionally well organized and presented, Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912 - 1916 is unreservedly recommended for community, college and university library 20th Century Military History collections and supplemental studies curriculums. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, military history buffs and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject... ' Midwest Book Review 'The authors have written a searing and revelatory book. There are other books in this genre, but this is notable for its broad geographical coverage, and the way it links the Balkan Wars to the First World War.' Geoffrey Wawro, Journal of Modern History