TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wawro,Geoffrey
TI  - A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire 
SN  - 0465028357 (hbk.)
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
KW  - Habsburg, House of.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Balkan Peninsula
KW  - Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
KW  - Causes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index; 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
N2  - "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 Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.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"--
ER  -