The Special Corps of Austria and Czechoslovakia 1918-1945


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Merriam Press Military Monograph 302. Seventh Edition (2013). Introductory history of several Austrian and Czechoslovakian militias, paramilitary organizations and other defensive organizations. The emphasis is on uniforms, insignia and accouterments of the Austrian Heimwehren 1918-36 Republikanischer Schutzbund Osterreichs 1919-34 Czech Legions Abroad as Part of the Czech Army in Russia and Italy 1917-20 Czech and Slovak Volunteer Militias of the Pre-Communist era 1918-45 Czech Castle Guards in Pre-Communist Czechoslovakia The SOS (State Defense Guards) of Czechoslovakia 1936-39 Czech Army Abroad During World War II Free Czech Troops During World War II 99 photos 12 illustrations 2 tables










MILITARY UNIFORMS IN EUROPE 1900 - 2000 Volume Two


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This book (Volume Two) gives an historical overview of 51 countries whose armed forces served in Europe 1900-2000, together with uniform descriptions. Includes 204 full colour paintings of the regular armies, marines, airforce and para-military troops engaged in land exercises, operations and warfare in Europe, including non-European troops serving in Europe. Each entry is accompanied by a history and description of the uniforms illustrated. The author and illustrator Ron Kidd, has been interested in both police and military history, uniforms and insignia since he was a school boy in the 1950's. He has visited over 300 police and military museums world-wide, and has written and illustrated a number of magazine articles on both police and military history and uniforms. He is a member of both the Military Heraldry Society and the Military Historical Society.




A Hopeless Struggle


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Embers of Empire


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The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.













Men Under Fire


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In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of any debate on their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself. It combines methods from history, gender studies, and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged these men’s senses of masculinity, and to which the resulting dynamics influenced their attitudes and loyalties.