Series:

General Military

Biographical note:

Prit Buttar studied medicine before joining the British Army as a doctor. Since leaving the army he has worked as a GP, now based in Oxfordshire, UK. He is involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and serves on the GP's Committee of the British Medical Association. He contributes regularly to the medical press and local and national media. He has written a novel, and his first work of military history, Battleground Prussia, received critical acclaim.

Main description:

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires--Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany--remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War.

With the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely exposé of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front--a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever. Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of the war, with the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia followed by the Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia and the failed German advance toward Warsaw.

Short description/annotation:

Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s and is the first in a four-part series from Osprey to mark the centenary.