The great Russian offensive of June 1916 crushed the Austro-Hungarian 4th and 7th armies. In many places, even the strongest regiments were simply swept away by the multiple superiority. The [ … ]
Category: War diary
July 1916 the story of private Rácz
In January 1916, the 40th “Fokos” division, including the 30th infantry regiment, suffered huge losses in the battles around Toporoutz in Bukovina. The regiment then had to be reorganized and [ … ]
June 1916
The graphics on the postcard of this post have excited me for many, many years. We see in this a strong representation of the horrors of war that makes it [ … ]
May 1916
In May 1916, the Great War had been going on for almost two years. The Monarchy survived the crisis in the winter of 1914-15. In the spring of 1915, they [ … ]
April 1916: Mole war on the Karst
After the severe fighting of 1915, there was relative calm on the Italian front during the winter. The fighting intensified from March. During the spring, there were a local attacks [ … ]
March 1916: the 5th Isonzo battle
After the Italian war declaration in 1915, fierce fighting unfolded on the south-western front until late autumn. The winter weather was not suitable to major military operations, as it was [ … ]
February 1916: Occupation of northern Albania
After forcing Serbia and Montenegro to their knees, the attack on the Entente troops continued in Albania. Albania was neutral at the beginning of the Great War, but its ports [ … ]
January, 1916
In the winter of 1914, the Monarchy received a big slap from little Serbia. The hard-to-occupy areas in the fall of 1914 had to be evacuated due to the simultaneous [ … ]
December 1915 Rarancze
Already the November war diary mentioned, that the Russian army, defeated in May-June 1915, was able to rearrange its ranks during the autumn and showed increasing resistance to the pursuing [ … ]
November 1915
In 1915, the Central Powers carried out successful attacks against Russia. As a result, Russian forces were not only withdrawn from the territories occupied in 1914, but Russian-Poland was also [ … ]