A mad catastrophe : the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire

A mad catastrophe The outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire

Geoffrey Wawro

Book - 2014

"The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As ... historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in [this book], the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself--both equally ripe for destruction"--

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Subjects
Habsburg, House of.
World War, 1914-1918 > Causes.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Balkan Peninsula.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
Austria > History > Franz Joseph I, 1848-1916.
Published
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group [2014]
Language
English
Main Author
Geoffrey Wawro (-)
Physical Description
xxiv, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index.
ISBN
9780465028351
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