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On the Eve 1025 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).
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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. 1 On the Eve 11
  2. 2 Two Million Men for the War 49
  3. 3 Bloody Sundays 81
  4. 4 Unleashing the War 117
  5. 5 ‘Thank God, this is the Great War!’ 157
  6. 6 Adjusting to a Longer War 197
  7. 7 The End of the Euphoria 239
  8. 8 The First Winter of the War 283
  9. 9 Under Surveillance 317
  10. 10 ‘The King of Italy has declared war on Me’ 355
  11. 11 The Third Front 383
  12. 12 Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915 413
  13. 13 Summer Battle and ‘Autumn Swine’ 441
  14. 14 War Aims and Central Europe 469
  15. 15 South Tyrol : The End of an Illusion (I) 497
  16. 16 Lutsk :The End of an Illusion (II) 521
  17. 17 How is a War Financed ? 555
  18. 18 The Nameless 583
  19. 19 The Death of the Old Emperor 607
  20. 20 Emperor Karl 641
  21. 21 The Writing on the Wall 657
  22. 22 The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution 691
  23. 23 Summer 1917 713
  24. 24 Kerensky Offensive and Peace Efforts 743
  25. 25 The Pyrrhic Victory : The Breakthrough Battle of Flitsch-Tolmein 769
  26. 26 Camps 803
  27. 27 Peace Feelers in the Shadow of Brest-Litovsk 845
  28. 28 The Inner Front 869
  29. 29 The June Battle in Veneto 895
  30. 30 An Empire Resigns 927
  31. 31 The Twilight Empire 955
  32. 32 The War becomes History 983
  33. Epilogue 1011
  34. Afterword 1013
  35. Acknowledgements and Dedication 1019
  36. Notes 1023
  37. Selected Printed Sources and Literature 1115
  38. Index of People and Places 1155
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