A Mad Catastrophe, (Hardcover)

from jcbrunner

All World Wars have been started and lost by natives of Austria. Is there something peculiar in the water of the not so blue Danube? Budapest is also known as a city of suicides, so self-destructive activities seem to be in the water (see also the Nibelungen saga). For Geoffrey Wawro, Hungary is ...

from jcbrunner

All World Wars have been started and lost by natives of Austria. Is there something peculiar in the water of the not so blue Danube? Budapest is also known as a city of suicides, so self-destructive activities seem to be in the water (see also the Nibelungen saga). For Geoffrey Wawro, Hungary is ...

from Sullywriter

An insightful, learned chronicle of how imperial hubris and meaningless slaughter in the First World War brought the crumbling multinational dual monarchy to collapse and the Hapsburg dynasty to an ignominious end.

from Shrike58

Distilling down a generation's research for the general reader, Wawro aims to disperse the fog that still allows Vienna to escape its share of culpability in creating the disaster that was the Great War. While if you have read the specialist military history you'll be aware that Habsburg military...

from douboy50

Dr. Wawro is definitely not impressed with the leadership and strategic skills of Austrian General Conrad von Hotzendorf!! This book presents the early period of WWI from the perspective of Austria-Hungary. It covers the diplomatic moves, the military mobilization, and the opening strategy and ba...