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21 On the personality of Franz Ferdinand, particularly his influence on policy : Georg Franz, Erzherzog
Franz Ferdinand und die Pläne zur Reform der Habsburger Monarchie (= Südosteuropäische Arbeiten
35, Brno/Munich/Vienna, 1943). Very thorough and analytical : Robert A. Kann, Franz Ferdinand Stu-
dien (Vienna, 1976). Also on his personality, Friedrich Weissensteiner, Franz Ferdinand. Der verhinderte
Herrscher (Vienna, 1983).
22 On Berchtold the two-volume biography by Hugo Hantsch, Leopold Graf Berchtold, Grandseigneur
und Staatsmann, 2 vols. (Graz/Vienna/Cologne, 1963). Berchtold’s diaries, which were used by Hantsch,
are now in the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives).
23 Uebersberger, Österreich, 76. Also Wolfgang J. Mommsen, War der Kaiser an allem schuld ? Wilhelm II.
und die preußisch-deutschen Machteliten (Munich, 2002), 194 ; John C.G. Röhl, Die Generalprobe. Zur
Geschichte und Bedeutung des “Kriegsrates” vom 8. Dezember 1912, in : Industrielle Gesellschaft und
politisches System, edited by Dirk Stegmann, Bernd-Jürgen Wendt, Peter Christian Witt (= Schriften-
reihe der Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn, 1978), 357–373.
24 Uebersberger, Österreich, 79. Here also specific references to the British position in a Franco-German
war.
25 Regarding the role of the Balkan states, and that of the ‘Concert of Europe’, see the volume : East Central
European Society and the Balkan Wars, ed. Béla K. Király, Dmitrije Djordjevic (= War and Society in
East Central Europe, Vol. 18, Boulder/New York, 1987).
26 Uebersberger, Österreich, 88 et seq. Also the barely considered attitude of Russia towards Austria during
the Balkan Wars in : Samuel R. Williamson, Military Dimensions of Habsburg-Romanov Relations dur-
ing the Era of the Balkan Wars, in : East Central European Society and the Balkan Wars, 317–337. Here
also extensive references.
27 Alma Hannig, Die Balkanpolitik Österreich-Ungarns vor 1914, in : Der Erste Weltkrieg auf dem Balkan.
Perspektiven der Forschung, edited by Jürgen Angelow (Berlin, 2011), 40.
28 Leslie, Österreich-Ungarn vor dem Kriegsausbruch, 664 et seq. Der Berliner Kriegsrat in : Fritz Fischer,
Griff nach der Weltmacht. Die Kriegszielpolitik des kaiserlichen Deutschland 1914/18. Special edition
(Düsseldorf, 1967), 45. A critical study on this subject : Egmont Zechlin, Probleme des Kriegskalküls
und der Kriegsbeendigung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in : Erster Weltkrieg, 150 et seq. Also a very thorough
study in : John C. G. Röhl, An der Schwelle zum Krieg : Eine Dokumentation über den “Kriegsrat” vom
8. Dezember 1912, in : Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen, No. 1(1977), 77–134.
29 Williamson, Austria-Hungary, 10.
30 Röhl, An der Schwelle zum Krieg, loc. cit.
31 Hew Strachan, The Outbreak of the First World War (Oxford, 2004), 65-68.
32 Uebersberger, Österreich, 109.
33 Schicksalsjahre Österreichs 1908–1919. Die Erinnerungen und Tagebücher Josef Redlichs 1869–1936,
edited by Fritz Fellner and Doris A. Corradini, 2 vols. and index volume (=Veröffentlichungen der Kom-
mission für neuere Geschichte Österreichs 105/1–3, Vienna/Cologne/Weimar, 2011 ; cited in Redlich,
Schicksalsjahre), Vol. 1, 528, 11.2.1913.
34 Hannig, Die Balkanpolitik Österreich-Ungarns, 45.
35 Tunstall, Planning for War, 116 et seq.
36 Here the detailed section in the particularly thorough book by Günther Kronenbitter, “Krieg im Frieden”.
Die Führung der k. u. k. Armee und die Großmachtpolitik Österreich-Ungarns 1906–1914 (= Studien
zur Internationalen Geschichte Vol. 13, Munich, 2003), here from 414.
37 Synodal Archives Budapest, Tisza bequest, box 6/20. On the issue of Transylvania see also
– albeit with a
unilateral focus on the Romanian perspective
– the book by Milton G. Lehrer, Transylvania. History and
Reality (Silverspring, 1986).
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