Vanquished and Victorious

World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938

Laurence Cole author Rudolf Kučera author Hannes Leidinger author Václav Šmidrkal author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Published:1st Sep '24

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Vanquished and Victorious cover

Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the ‘successor states’ of the Habsburg Empire. Vanquished and Victorious provides an innovative comparative investigation of veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, two states whose wider political development was of crucial importance to the question of stability in Central Europe after 1918. While differing in terms of how successfully veterans reintegrated into post-war society, this volume shows that both countries incorporated elements of ‘cultures of victory and defeat’.

ISBN: 9781805397748

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336 pages