The emperor and the peasant : two men at the start of the Great War and the end of the Habsburg Empire / Kenneth Janda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janda, Kenneth, author.

Contributor:

Pinfold, Daniel, 1992-2015, provenance.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habsburg, House of.

Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916.

Franz Joseph.

Mozolák, Samuel.

World War, 1914-1918--Austria.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Eastern Front.

Physical Description:

x, 277 pages : illustrations, maps

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

System Details:

text file

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 Mozolák 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. Mozolák'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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Emperor in Vienna 15

2 The Peasant in Krajné 29

3 The Emperor's Subjects 41

4 The Peasant's Voyage 57

5 Imperial Ignorance 70

6 Peasants in Passage 81

7 Imperial Deciders 96

8 Peasants Under Arms 110

9 Imperial Armies 123

10 Peasants in Peril 139

11 Imperial Irrelevance 151

12 Peasants in War 166

13 Imperial Losses 187

14 Peasant Gains 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1476669570

9781476669571

OCLC:

1023545259