Book contents
- Forgotten Wars
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Forgotten Wars
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Capsules
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I The Fronts
- Part II The Rear
- 5 The Hinterland
- 6 The Hunger for Information
- 7 Loyalties
- Part III Occupation
- Afterword
- Select Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Hinterland
from Part II - The Rear
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2021
- Forgotten Wars
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Forgotten Wars
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Capsules
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I The Fronts
- Part II The Rear
- 5 The Hinterland
- 6 The Hunger for Information
- 7 Loyalties
- Part III Occupation
- Afterword
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
A visitor wandering the streets of Vienna, Belgrade, Berlin, or Bucharest in the penultimate year of the Great War would have witnessed more or less the same scene in each of those cities: men in oversized suits or uniforms and women in dresses that had fitted them perfectly a few years earlier. The same visitor would have also noticed a proliferation of fruit and vegetable gardens, even in front of the Schwarzenberg Palace in Vienna. The difference between the hinterland and occupied territories was simple: in the former these miniature garden-plots were owned by local residents, whereas on the boulevards of Belgrade or Bucharest they were owned partly by the residents and partly by the occupier’s military units stationed nearby. Life during wartime was hardly better in one’s ‘own’ hinterland than it was in occupied territories.
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- Forgotten WarsCentral and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916, pp. 161 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021