Dreams of a Great Small Nation

Dreams of a Great Small NationDescription by Kevin J. McNamara Hardcover 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

Some illustrations went on to become part of post-war archives and have appeared

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The charge at The Nek has been immortalized in art

and then somehow reward these troops for their service

seeing service over the Western Front from August 1914 to the enemy’s surrender

Hart offers deft portraits of the commanders

A beleaguered government and a vengeful public target two groups as scapegoats: pacifists and homosexuals

The old imperial order

in association with the World War One Historical Association

From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin

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