The Emperor and the Peasant: Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire

by Kenneth Janda

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476669570
• ISBN13: 9781476669571
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher