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8 The First Winter of the War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
On the War’s Objectives (286) – Death in the Carpathians (297) – Gorlice
– Tarnów (311)
9 Under Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Of Heroes and Cowards (320) – The Prague ‘House Regiment’ (344)
10 ‘The King of Italy has declared war on Me’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
‘Sacro egoismo’ (364) – The Treaty of London (370) – The Final Offer (375)
11 The Third Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
The Pre-emption (388) – On the Isonzo and in the Sette Comuni (392) –
The War of Attrition (405)
12 Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Being a Soldier and the Burden of Work (422) – The Army High Com-
mand and Domestic Policy (426) – Soldier Games ? (434) – The Attempt to
Topple Stürgkh (437)
13 Summer Battle and ‘Autumn Swine’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
On the Priority of the Theatres of War (443) – The ‘Black-Yellow’ Offen-
sive (450) – The Fourth Offensive against Serbia (460)
14 War Aims and Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
The Salonika Problem (471) – Winter War in Russia and Montene-
gro (475) – The Central Powers and Central Europe (479) – The Vision of
Peace with Victory (487)
15 South Tyrol : The End of an Illusion (I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
The Easter Demands (500) – The ‘Punitive Expedition’ is Prepared (504) –
The Attack (515)
16 Lutsk :The End of an Illusion (II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
The Brusilov Offensive (523) – The Hindenburg Front (533) – Poison
Gas (541) – The ‘Joint Supreme War Command’ (545)
17 How is a War Financed ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
The Search for the Nervus Rerum (557) – The War Bonds (565) – The Rag-
ing of the Banknote Presses (578)
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 – 1918
- Title
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- Subtitle
- and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 – 1918
- Author
- Manfried Rauchensteiner
- Publisher
- Böhlau Verlag
- Location
- Wien
- Date
- 2014
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-79588-9
- Size
- 17.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 1192
- Categories
- Geschichte Vor 1918
Table of contents
- 1 On the Eve 11
- 2 Two Million Men for the War 49
- 3 Bloody Sundays 81
- 4 Unleashing the War 117
- 5 ‘Thank God, this is the Great War!’ 157
- 6 Adjusting to a Longer War 197
- 7 The End of the Euphoria 239
- 8 The First Winter of the War 283
- 9 Under Surveillance 317
- 10 ‘The King of Italy has declared war on Me’ 355
- 11 The Third Front 383
- 12 Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915 413
- 13 Summer Battle and ‘Autumn Swine’ 441
- 14 War Aims and Central Europe 469
- 15 South Tyrol : The End of an Illusion (I) 497
- 16 Lutsk :The End of an Illusion (II) 521
- 17 How is a War Financed ? 555
- 18 The Nameless 583
- 19 The Death of the Old Emperor 607
- 20 Emperor Karl 641
- 21 The Writing on the Wall 657
- 22 The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution 691
- 23 Summer 1917 713
- 24 Kerensky Offensive and Peace Efforts 743
- 25 The Pyrrhic Victory : The Breakthrough Battle of Flitsch-Tolmein 769
- 26 Camps 803
- 27 Peace Feelers in the Shadow of Brest-Litovsk 845
- 28 The Inner Front 869
- 29 The June Battle in Veneto 895
- 30 An Empire Resigns 927
- 31 The Twilight Empire 955
- 32 The War becomes History 983
- Epilogue 1011
- Afterword 1013
- Acknowledgements and Dedication 1019
- Notes 1023
- Selected Printed Sources and Literature 1115
- Index of People and Places 1155