With the Russian troops now advancing toward the Habsburg province of Galicia, all that stood between them and near-certain victory was Przemysl, a fortress city in the eastern marches of the ...

For 131 days from November 12, 1914 to March 23, 1915, the Austrian fortress town of Przemyśl (Puh-SHEM-ish-le) was under siege, with around 130,000 Habsburg troops trapped by a Russian force of ...

With the suppression of the abortive uprising, Remnev was arrested on 5th July and held in the Kresty prison, in the same block as Trotsky (not actually a member of the Bolsheviks at this time), and ...

and "The Fortress," about the siege of Przemyśl on the Eastern Front. You can find Watson's books here: "Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918": www.hachettebookgroup.com ...

The excavation works at Fort IX A, which is a part of Przemyśl Fortress, have just come to an end. Among the things the archeologists have found at the site are cartridge cases, parts of an ...

The fall of Przemysl, which will now no doubt be called ... The town was a first-class fortress, whose development had been an object of special solicitude to the late Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

In a former shopping centre on the outskirts of Przemysl, a city in south-eastern Poland, up to 300 Ukrainian refugees arrive each day. That number is significantly lower than this time last year ...

You can find Alexander Watson's books here: Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands Enduring the ...