The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands (Alexander Watson)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
The War in Pshema-Shale
Pshema-Shale was left with a garrison of 130,000 men, 30,000 civilians and inadequate supplies of food and winter clothing. Watson tries to draw a line from these events to the total wars and civilian massacres that characterized the 20th century but this is strained. Americans have just forgotten the cost of war, and that in any war where a fifth column may be perceived, real or not, suspicion and cruelty are the norm.
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