The well-respected historian Manfried Rauchensteiner analyses the outbreak of World War I, Emperor Franz Joseph's role in the conflict, and how the various nationalities of the Habsburg Monarchy reacted to the disintegration of this 640-yearold empire in 1918. After Archduke Franz Ferdinand"s assassination in Sarajevo in 1914, war was inevitable. Emperor Franz Joseph intended it, and everyone in Vienna expected it. How the war began and how Austria-Hungary managed to avoid capitulation only weeks later with the help of German troops reads like a thriller. Manfried Rauchensteiner"s book is based on decades of research and is a fascinating read to the very end, even though the final outcome, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, is already known. Originally published in German in 2013 by Böhlau, this standard work is now available in English.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.

At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.

Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.

We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.

Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.

Yes, you can access The First World War by Manfried Rauchensteiner, Anna Güttel-Bellert,Alex J. Kay in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Histoire & Référence historique. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Böhlau Wien

Year

2014

ISBN

9783205793700

Edition

Topic

Histoire

Subtopic

Référence historique

Cover
Title Page
Imprint
Content
1 On the Eve
2 Two Million Men for the War
3 Bloody Sundays
4 Unleashing the War
5 ‘Thank God, this is the Great War!’
6 Adjusting to a Longer War
7 The End of the Euphoria
8 The First Winter of the War
9 Under Surveillance
10 ‘The King of Italy has declared war on Me’
11 The Third Front
12 Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915
13 Summer Battle and ‘Autumn Swine’
14 War Aims and Central Europe
15 South Tyrol: The End of an Illusion (I)
16 Lutsk: The End of an Illusion (II)
17 How is a War Financed?
18 The Nameless
19 The Death of the Old Emperor
20 Emperor Karl
21 The Writing on the Wall
22 The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution
23 Summer 1917
24 Kerensky Offensive and Peace Efforts
25 The Pyrrhic Victory: The Breakthrough Battle of Flitsch-Tolmein
26 Camps
27 Peace Feelers in the Shadow of Brest-Litovsk
28 The Inner Front
29 The June Battle in Veneto
30 An Empire Resigns
31 The Twilight Empire
32 The War becomes History
Epilogue
Afterword
Acknowledgements and Dedication
Notes
Selected Printed Sources and Literature
Index of People and Places
The Russian Theatre of War
The Italian Theatre of War