Vanquished and Victorious: World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 (Austrian and Habsburg Studies #35)

By: Laurence Cole and Rudolf Kučera and Hannes Leidinger and Václav Šmidrkal

Sign Up Now! Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into Bookshare to access this title. Learn about membership options, or view our freely available titles.

Synopsis: Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the ‘successor states’ of the Habsburg Empire. Vanquished and Victorious provides an innovative comparative investigation of veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, two states whose wider political development was of crucial importance to the question of stability in Central Europe after 1918. While differing in terms of how successfully veterans reintegrated into post-war society, this volume shows that both countries incorporated elements of ‘cultures of victory and defeat’.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 324 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781805397755
Related ISBNs:: 9781805397748
Publisher:: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 09/01/24
Copyrighted By:: Václav Šmidrkal, Laurence Cole, Hannes Leidinger, Rudolf Kučera, Julia Walleczek-Fritz and Radka Šustrová
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Military, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.