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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.
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