Despite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania intervened in World War I in August 1916.
In return, it received the Allies' formal sanction for the annexation of the Romanian-inhabited regions of Austria-Hungary.
As Glenn Torrey reveals in his pathbreaking study, this soon appeared to have been an impulsive and risky decision for both parties.
Torrey details how, by the end of 1916, the armie.
University Press Of Kansas The romanian battlefront in world war i, paperback/glenn e. torrey
