The First World War and the end of the Habsburg monarchy, 1914-1918 / / Manfried Rauchensteiner ; translated from the German by Alex J. Kay and Anna Güttel-Bellert.
The well-respected historian Manfried Rauchensteiner analyses the outbreak of World War I, Emperor Franz Joseph’s role in the conflict, and how the various nationalities of the Habsburg Monarchy reacted to the disintegration of this 640-yearold empire in 1918. After Archduke Franz Ferdinand"s a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Wien, Austria : : Böhlau Verlag,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English German |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1181 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- 1. On The Eve
- 2. Two Million Men For The War
- 3. Bloody Sundays
- 4. Unleashing The War
- 5. ‘Thank God, This Is The Great War!’
- 6. Adjusting To A Longer War
- 7. The End Of The Euphoria
- 8. The First Winter Of The War
- 9. Under Surveillance
- 10. ‘The King Of Italy Has Declared War On Me’
- 11. The Third Front
- 12. Factory War And Domestic Front, 1915
- 13. Summer Battle And ‘Autumn Swine’
- 14. War Aims And Central Europe
- 15. South Tyrol : The End Of An Illusion (I)
- 16. Lutsk :The End Of An Illusion (Ii)
- 17. How Is A War Financed ?
- 18. The Nameless
- 19. The Death Of The Old Emperor
- 20. Emperor Karl
- 21. The Writing On The Wall
- 22. The Consequences Of The Russian February Revolution
- 23. Summer 1917
- 24. Kerensky Offensive And Peace Efforts
- 25. The Pyrrhic Victory : The Breakthrough Battle Of Flitsch-Tolmein
- 26. Camps
- 27. Peace Feelers In The Shadow Of Brest-Litovsk
- 28. The Inner Front
- 29. The June Battle In Veneto
- 30. An Empire Resigns
- 31. The Twilight Empire
- 32. The War Becomes History
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements And Dedication
- Notes
- Selected Printed Sources And Literature
- Index Of People And Places.