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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wawro, Geoffrey.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wawro, Geoffrey.       by title:      A mad catastrophe : ...         MARC Display

A mad catastrophe : the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire / Geoffrey Wawro. by Wawro, Geoffrey. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2014. 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. ISBN:  9780465028351 (hbk.) 0465028357 (hbk.) Description:  xxiv, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 940.414 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.414 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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