Brief Romanian Military History Book

Foreword   Dennis Showalter     v
Romanian Historical Terms     vii
Abbreviations and Acronyms     xi
Chronology     1
The First Conflicts of Antiquity: 6th Century BC to AD 2nd Century     36
The Great Migrations and the Formation of the Romanian Nation and Medieval States     42
The Anti-Ottoman Wars, from Mircea the Old to Vlad Tepes     49
The Apogee of the Anti-Ottoman Wars, from Stephen the Great to Michael the Brave: 1457-1601     60
The Army and Romanian Battles from the 17th Century to the Eve of the 19th Century: 1601-1821     74
From People's Assembly to the Modern Romanian Armed Forces: 1821-1867     82
The War of Independence: 1877-1878     106
From the Middle of the 19th Century to the Beginning of the 20th Century     110
Romanian Participation in the Second Balkan War     118
From the Danube to the Tisa River: 1914-1919     121
The Interwar Period     137
From the Caucasus and Stalingrad to Budapest and Vienna's Porte     144
From Jacket to Rubashka: 1945-1989     159
Romanian Military Involvement in the Revolution of December 1989     173
At the Turn of the Millennium: On the Way to NATO     179
Notes     217
Selected Bibliography     223
About the Author     227