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A Mad Catastrophe

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

A Mad Catastrophe

By Geoffrey Wawro

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The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe , the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Aust...Show more

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9780465057955

Publisher

INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

Published year

2015

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1

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A Mad Catastrophe

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