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020 _a0465028357 (hbk.)
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049 _aNFGA
092 _a940.414
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100 1 _aWawro, Geoffrey.
_9249652
245 1 2 _aA mad catastrophe :
_bthe outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire /
_cGeoffrey Wawro.
260 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
_c[2014]
300 _axxiv, 440 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 _a"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 Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 3 0 _aHabsburg, House of.
_922775
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xCampaigns
_zBalkan Peninsula.
_9249653
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xCampaigns
_zGalicia (Poland and Ukraine).
_9249654
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xCauses.
_9155193
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