Stronghold of the Middle Class? Przemyśl in the Great War
Stronghold of the Middle Class? Przemyśl in the Great War

Summary/Abstract: The article is about the circumstances that ruled during the two long sieges of the Austrian fortress of the town of Przemyśl in Galicia. The fighting around this town is one of the most interesting and extremely challenging phenomena of the 20th century military history. Apart from the military aspect of the sieges performed by the Russian army, the article analyzed the circumstances of conditions of survival of the civilians of all social classes and various ethnic backgrounds. The sieges of the Przemyśl Fortress was observed as an example of total war.

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