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A mad catastrophe : the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire / Geoffrey Wawro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wawro, Geoffrey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Habsburg, House of.
- World War, 1914-1918--Causes.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Balkan Peninsula.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine).
- Austria--History--Franz Joseph I, 1848-1916.
- Austria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (686 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A prizewinning military historian explores a critical but overlooked cause for World War I: the staggering decrepitude of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; chapter1; The Sick Man of Europe; chapter2; Between Blunder and Stupidity; chapter3; The Balkan Wars; chapter4; Murder in Sarajevo; chapter5; The Steamroller; chapter6; Misfits; chapter7; Krásnik; chapter8; Komarów; chapter9; Lemberg and Rawa-Ruska; chapter10; Death on the Drina; chapter11; Warsaw; chapter12; The Thin Gray Line; chapter13; Serbian Jubilee; chapter14; Snowmen; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-465-05795-0
- 0-465-08081-2
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