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‘Thank God, this is the Great War!’ 1041 Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 18 (2005), No. 3, 483–507. Schindler also does away with other rumours that have almost become standard phrases. Thus, for example, the description by Egon Erwin Kiss of how he received information about the opening of Redl’s apartment in Prague and there- fore about the treason story, was consigned to the realm of fantasy. I am most grateful to Professor Dr Siegfried Beer, Graz, for the reference to this work and for making it available to me. 379 The manuscript of this discussion held on 26.5.1913 is the property of the author. 380 Degreif, Operative Planungen, 283. 381 Ibid., 292. 382 On the national composition, see also Ehnl, Die österreichisch-ungarische Landmacht, loc. cit. 383 Marian Zgórniak, Galizien in den Kriegsplänen Österreichs und Österreich-Ungarns, in : Österreich Polen. 1000 Jahre Beziehungen (=  Studia Austro-Polonica, Vol. 5, edited by the Jagellonische Universi- tät, Historische Reihe Vol. 121, Kraków, 1996), 303. 384 Holger H. Herwig, The First World War. Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (London/New York/Sydney/Auckland, 1997) 79. The author of this very lively book is however frequently very liberal in his interpretation of the information. 385 Degreif, Operative Planungen, 222. 386 On the following : Norman Stone, Die Mobilmachung der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee 1914, in : Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen, No. 2 (1974), here 78. 387 KA, Nachlass B/1466 Böhm-Ermolli, Tagebuchmanuskript, 1. The retroactively edited diary of Böhm-Ermolli is stored on microfilm in the Austrian War Archives in Vienna. The original is in the Slezské zemske muzeum, Opava. 388 Tunstall, Planning for War, 174. 389 Ibid., 179–181. 390 Graydon A. Tunstall, The Habsburg Command Conspiracy : The Austrian Falsification on the Outbreak of World War I, in : Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. XXVII (1996), 181–198. The highly problematic railway deployment of the Imperial and Royal Army became a popular subject for American historians in particular, most recently Holger H. Herwig. Essentially G. Tunstall, Planning for War, 189–209. The fact is that those responsible for the deployment, above all Gustav Ratzenhofer, presented their views regarding this issue in detail several times and in high-profile places, and justified their decisions. For example, Ratzenhofer did this as the person responsible for the important volume published by the Carnegie Endowment on Austro-Hungarian transportation during the war. At first, critics were far less frequently heard, and when they were, it was in a lower profile manner, e.g. Rudolf Pfeffer, Zum 10. Jahrestag der Schlachten bei Zloczów und Przemyślany 6.–30. August 1914. Eine Entgegnung… (Vienna, 1924). Also Max Freiherr von Pitreich, Die militärischen Probleme unseres Kriegsbeginn (Vienna, 1934) ; by the same author : Lemberg 1914 (Vienna, 1929). However, it was precisely Pitreich who failed to attract attention in comparison with the descriptions given by Ratzen- hofer. Most remained as a manuscript and can be found in the family and estate papers of Pitreich in the Austrian War Archives in Vienna : Manuskripte zum Weltkrieg 1914–1918, Nos. A-65 and A-99. The Officer of the Hungarian General Staff Kalman Kéri jumped on to the critics’ bandwagon during the 1960s : KA, Manuskripte No. A-103. 391 KA, Böhm-Ermolli Tagebuchmanuskript, 2. 392 Enderes, Die österreichischen Eisenbahnen, 75. 393 Ein General im Zwielicht. Die Erinnerungen Edmund Glaises von Horstenau, edited by Peter Broucek, Vol. 1 (=  Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Neuere Geschichte Österreichs, Vol. 67, Vienna/Co- logne/Weimar, 1980 ; cited in Glaise-Horstenau), 285 et seq. 394 Glaise-Horstenau, General im Zwielicht I, 285.