{"product_id":"the-emperor-and-the-peasant-two-men-at-the-start-of-the-great-war-and-the-end-of-the-habsburg-empire-9781476669571","title":"The Emperor and the Peasant: Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kenneth Janda\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Military - World War I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak's story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46474004824215,"sku":"9781476669571","price":3738.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781476669571.jpg?v=1766265346","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-emperor-and-the-peasant-two-men-at-the-start-of-the-great-war-and-the-end-of-the-habsburg-empire-9781476669571","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}