Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Peter C. Appelbaum, Peter C. Appelbaum

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For nearly all of the Great War, the Jewish doctor Bernhard Bardach served with the Austro-Hungarian army in present-day Ukraine. His diaries from that period, unpublished and largely overlooked until now, represent a distinctive and powerful record of daily life on the Eastern Front. In addition to key events such as the 1916 Brusilov Offensive, Bardach also gives memorable descriptions of military personalities, refugees, food shortages, and the uncertainty and boredom that inescapably attended life on the front. Ranging from the critical first weeks of fighting to the ultimate collapse of the Austrian army, these meticulously written diaries comprise an invaluable eyewitness account of the Great War.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-17
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt624 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor326
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785339783

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Peter C. Appelbaum is an Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University. His publications include the books Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War and Loyal Sons: Jews in the German Army in the Great War (both 2014) and, as translator and editor, Broken Carousel: German Jewish Soldier-Poets of the Great War (2017), Jewish Tales of the Great War (2017), Avigdor Hameiri’s Hell on Earth (2017; winner of the 2019 TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Translation), and Kurt Tucholsky’s Prayer after the Slaughter (2015).

List of IllustrationsForeword: All Quiet on the Eastern Front: The War Diaries of Bernhard BardachJay WinterAcknowledgmentsNote on Town NamesTranslator’s IntroductionIntroduction: Bernhard Bardach: A Biographical SketchHelmut KonradChapter 1. 1914: Poland, Russia, CarpathiansChapter 2. 1915: Carpathians, Gorlice-Tarnów, Southern and Western UkraineChapter 3. 1916: The Brusilov Offensive and Its AftermathChapter 4. 1917: Winter in Ukraine—Inspections—Blockade—Worsening ShortagesChapter 5. 1918: Treaty of Brest Litovsk—Crippling Shortages—Piave—War’s EndAppendixesBibliographyIndex

“Carnage and Care is a significant historical document and much-welcomed source for scholars of the military, social, and material history of World War I. It is also a valuable record for everyone interested in the history of war on the territories of present-day Ukraine and the eastern front in general. Moreover, as reflected in the diary, the Bardach biography itself serves as an interesting entry point into studying the generation of loyal Habsburg citizens who dedicated their lives to the fading imperial world and were forced to reinvent themselves in a new era of nation-states.” • Harvard Ukrainian Studies“Bernhard Bardach’s diary is a significant historical document, in some respects recalling the German Jewish Viktor Klemperer’s famous World War II Dresden diary. In addition to its detailed account of the Eastern Front, it gives a compelling portrait of an assimilated Central European Jew who fully embraced the Habsburg concept of citizenship and strongly identified with German-Austrian language and culture, only to end his life in exile and disappointment following the Nazi era.” • Istvan Deák, Columbia University