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1814 On the various peace feelers, rumours of resignation and speculations about revolution, see the docu-
ments in the HHStA, PA I, Box 511, geh. XLVII, 5g, Separat-Verständigungen mit Italien 1915 to 1918.
1815 Broucek, Deutsche Bemühungen, 460.
1816 TNA, Kew, War Office (WO) 106/318 Weekly Summaries 1917, here 23.8.1917. Also John and Ei-
leen Wilks, The British Army in Italy (Barnsley, 1998), 21 et seq.
1817 Cornwall, The Undermining of Austria-Hungary, 77.
1818 TNA, Kew, WO 106/1513 No. 18, Note on the Strategic Situation, 7.7.1917.
1819 TNA, Kew, WO 106/1515, No. 33, Note on the Manpower and Internal Conditions of the Central
Powers, 1.9.1917.
1820 TNA, Kew, WO 106/1511, Memorandum Robertson, January 1917.
1821 These considerations were presented by the British Prime Minister to President Wilson in his letter
dated 20.9.1917. See also : Mamatey, The United States and Central Europe, 153.
1822 Martin Müller, Vernichtungsgedanke und Koalitionskriegführung. Das Deutsche Reich und Öster-
reich in den Offensiven 1917/18. Eine Clausewitz-Studie, 3rd version, duplicated as a manuscript,
(Innsbruck, 2002), 77.
1823 Arthur Arz (von Straußenburg), Zur Geschichte des großen Krieges 1914–1918. Aufzeichnungen
(Vienna/Leipzig/Munich, 1924), 171.
1824 Ibid., 172.
1825 Martin Müller, Vernichtungsgedanke und Koalitionskriegführung, 84.
1826 Glaise-Horstenau, General im Zwielicht I, 432.
1827 Hecht, Fragen zur Heeresergänzung, 479.
1828 Ibid., 486.
1829 Peter Hecker, Kriegswirtschaft – Modell einer neuen Wirtschaftsverfassung. Pläne und Ziele der ös-
terreichischen Regierungen während des 1. Weltkriegs, in : Modell einer neuen Wirtschaftsordnung,
op. cit., 48 et seq., note 44.
1830 See the highly interesting report by the Swiss major Guggisberg on his visit to the Isonzo front follow-
ing the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Swiss Federal Archives), Bern,
E 27, 12678, September 1917, 21–29.
1831 The essence of the descriptions given by the NCO in Landsturm Regiment No. 27, Hans Hartinger
(KA NL B/428), 101.
1832 Ibid., 136 and Guggisberg report, 23.
1833 KA, AOK Op. geh. No. 421, 20.10.1917.
1834 This would have referred to the experiences later published in 1918 in 17 individual booklets, entitled
‘Gebirgskrieg’.
1835 TNA, Kew, WO 106/1515, No. 32, Report Delmé-Radcliff 1442A, dated 21.10.1917.
1836 Since, despite all censorship measures, it was not possible to prevent information from finding its way
to the hinterland from the front, where it was naturally spread, in some cases, the army command im-
posed a postal ban. However, the lack of post then led to consternation. To prevent this, the pre-printed
correspondence cards were created, to which nothing was permitted to be added except for the address
of the recipient.
1837 Jan F. Triska, The Great War’s Forgotten Front. A Soldier’s Diary and a Son’s Reflection (Boulder/New
York, 1998), 54 et seq.
1838 Triska, The Great War’s Forgotten Front, 58.
1839 Schäfer, Lexikon biologischer und chemischer Kampfstoffe, 40.
1840 Diary of Krafft von Dellmensingen, quoted in Martin Müller, Vernichtungsgedanken und Koalition-
skriegführung, 87.
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