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There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat.
The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak's story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue: The Habsburg Empire and the Great War
1. The Emperor in Vienna
2. The Peasant in Krajné
3. The Emperor's Subjects
4. The Peasant's Voyage
5. Imperial Ignorance
6. Peasants in Passage
7. Imperial Deciders
8. Peasants Under Arms
9. Imperial Armies
10. Peasants in Peril
11. Imperial Irrelevance
12. Peasants in War
13. Imperial Losses
14. Peasant Gains
Epilogue: Immigration and Self-Determination
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
