Caucasian Battlefields: A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921Cambridge University Press, 17 февр. 2011 г. - Всего страниц: 690 The Caucasus region, which forms a natural boundary between Asia and Europe, has always been of great strategic importance. Russia's expansion into the region in the late eighteenth century brought conflict with the Ottoman Empire, creating a new area of contention between these two states, and the borderlands remained in a state of intermittent conflict until the end of the First World War. This volume, first published in 1953, discusses the four major conflicts which took place in the region during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on military strategy, the book describes in great detail battles, skirmishes and logistical problems of warfare in a mountainous and remote region. Illustrated with thirty-nine maps, it provides a wealth of information for military historians and remains an authoritative account. |
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The Historical Geography of Caucasia | 3 |
Frontier Operations Autumn 1853 | 57 |
Siege of Kars Operations in Eleskirt Region | 81 |
The Russian and Turkish Armies in 1877 Failure | 105 |
The Black Sea Coast Operation against Batum | 123 |
CONTENTS | 152 |
The Transcaucasian Frontier 18781914 | 221 |
Turkish Prelude to World War I | 234 |
Flank Operations on the Caucasian Front | 293 |
Advance of IV Caucasian Army Corps | 302 |
Abdul Kerims Invasion of the Eleskirt Valley | 311 |
Yudenichs | 320 |
The Battle of Kopriikoy 1019 January 1916 | 331 |
Before the Storm of Erzurum 20 January | 344 |
The Storm of Erzurum 1115 February | 355 |
Epilogue The Government of SouthWest Caucasia | 497 |
War on the Caucasian Frontier November 1914 | 240 |
The Defeat of Enver Pasa | 276 |
The Consequences of Sarikamis | 286 |
Bibliographical and Supplementary Notes | 528 |
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