A mad catastrophe : the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire / Geoffrey Wawro.
| Author/creator | Wawro, Geoffrey |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014] |
| Description | xxiv, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The sick man of Europe -- Between blunder and stupidity -- The Balkan Wars -- Murder in Sarajevo -- The streamroller -- Misfits -- Krásnik -- Komarów -- Lemberg and Rawa-Ruska -- Death on the Drina -- Warsaw -- The thin gray line -- Serbian jubilee -- Snowmen. |
| Abstract | "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 Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013039393 |
| ISBN | 9780465028351 |
| ISBN | 0465028357 (hbk.) |