Russias Last Gasp, Prit Buttar
Russias Last Gasp, Prit Buttar
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Russia's Last Gasp
The Eastern Front 1916–17

Author: Prit Buttar

Narrator: Roger Clark

Unabridged: 21 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/12/2019


Synopsis

In Russia's Last Gasp, Prit Buttar looks at one of the bloodiest campaigns launched in the history of warfare—the Brusilov Offensive, sometimes known as the June Advance. With British, French, and German forces locked in a stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front, an attack was launched by the massed Russian armies to the east. The assault was intended to knock Austria-Hungary out of the war and divert German troops from the Western Front, easing the pressure on Russia's allies. Russia's dismal military performance in the preceding years was forgotten, as the Brusilov Offensive was quickly characterized by innovative tactics. Most impressive of all was the Russian use of shock troops, a strategy that German armies would later use to great effect in the final years of the war.

Drawing on first-hand accounts and detailed archival research, Buttar gives a dramatic retelling of final years of the war on the Eastern Front, with the Russian Army claiming military success at a cost so high that it was never able to recover.

About Prit Buttar

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He appeared from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues, and contributed regularly to the medical press.

An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, Buttar's books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21. He lives in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.


Reviews

‘’The conditions for defeating an enemy presupposes great physical or moral superiority or else an extremely enterprising spirit, an inclination for serious risks. When neither of these is present, the object of military activity can only be one of two kinds: seizing a small or larger piece......more

Goodreads review by Jean

For the past five years I have been reading books about World War One as part of the 100th year anniversary of the Great War. I found this book about the Eastern Front and decided that it would help fill in my lack of knowledge about this part of WWI. It is great to find a book covering the Eastern......more

Goodreads review by Heinz

Volume 3 of Mr. Buttar's magnum opus on the Eastern Front of the Great War. 1916 was the year that both sides determined to win the war, a war that if it lasted any longer would destroy the old order and usher in an age of chaos and revolution. The Entente hoped to drag the Central Powers, namely Ge......more

Goodreads review by Steven

The Brusilov offensive in 1916 was as successful of any other incomplete victory in World War I--and one of the few major offensives by the Russian Army. This book puts that offensive into a context--what transpired before, the offensive itself, and what happened afterwards. Previous Russian efforts-......more