War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe After the Great War

by John Horne and Robert Gerwarth

Book Overview

The First World War did not end in November 1918. In Russia and Eastern Europe it finished up to a year earlier, and both there and elsewhere in Europe it triggered conflicts that lasted down to 1923. Paramilitary formations were prominent in this continuation of the war. They had some features of formal military organizations, but were used in opposition to the regular military as an instrument of revolution or as an adjunct or substitute for military...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199654913
• ISBN13: 9780199654918
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"