A Mad Catastrophe Tops Officials in the military and

Officials in the military and government

Covering the period 1871–1918

from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration Trilogy

by Val Shushkewich

A Mad Catastrophe Tops Officials in the military andDescription by Geoffrey Wawro Paperback A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern FrontThe Austro Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging obsolete weapons, the Habsburg troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume