Heroes of the First World War

No in our country is more stupid, more excited, more damned and forgotten war than the First World War (1914-1918) Gorky fate of her heroes. By virtue of historical circumstances, they did not wait for nor anniversary medals, nor pensions, nor museums, nor eternal lights, no colors on the day of victory ...
This book is a modest tribute to those who have not returned from the bloody fields of Galicia, Volyn, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, who are forever the cold waters of the Baltic or Black Sea.
The reader"s attention is represented by twelve essays - short biographies of people who forever entered their names in the history of the First World War. This is an outstanding commander and commander of a combat ship, the son of the Grand Duke and a simple Don Cossack, the first fighter pilot and sister in Russia, a military priest and a dashy hussar officer ... The life of each hero is traced in a close relationship with the fate of Russia, which makes it necessary for reading Holistic idea of ​​the Great and Tragic Epoch.
The book is equipped with applications, of which the reader learns a lot of useful about the organization and structure of the Russian Imperial Army, military ranks and awards