A Mad Catastrophe The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire By: Geoffrey Wawro Publisher: Basic Books Print ISBN: 9780465028351, 0465028357 eText ISBN: 9780465080816, 0465080812 Edition: 1st Format: EPUB Available from $ 11.99 USD SKU 9780465080816 For Sale in US* Only A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging obsolete weapons, the Habsburg troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the disorganization of these doomed conscripts perfectly mirrored Austria-Hungary itself. For years, the Empire had been rotting Download ebook: https://ouo.io/QxFxZR
