Rauchensteiner Manfried. The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 - 1918

Verlag Ges.m.b.H & Co. KG, 2014. — 1118 p.On the Eve
The Ballhausplatz and the Deficit of War (16) – The Powder Keg (21) –
The Socialisation of Violence (33) – Poor State, Wealthy Businesses (43)
Two Million Men for the War
The ‘entire armed force’ (51) – Dual Alliance and Triple Alliance (62) – The Military Accords (67) – Pre-emptive War: Yes or No? (77)
Bloody Sundays
The Assassination (83) – The Shock (87) – The July Crisis (90)
Unleashing the War
Franz Joseph I (120) – The Calm before the Storm (123) – The ‘Skirmish’ near Temes-Kubin (127) – Salvation through War (136) – The First Shot (141) – An Empire Mobilises (144)
‘Thank God, this is the Great War!’
Deployment in Echelons and Packets (159) – Archduke ‘Fritzl’ Goes to the Front (175) – The Mounted Engagement at Jarosławice (180) – The Initial Campaigns (183)
Adjusting to a Longer War
The War Economy Dominates Everyday Life (200) – Wounded, Sick and Dead (215) – The Home Front Becomes a Fortress (219) – Official Announcements
(223) – The Death of General Wodniansky (226)
The End of the Euphoria
The Fortress on the San (242) – Fleet in Being (260) – In the Shadow of the Gallows (264) – Belgrade and the Failure in the Balkans (272)
The First Winter of the War
On the War’s Objectives (286) – Death in the Carpathians (297) – Gorlice – Tarnów (311)
Under Surveillance
Of Heroes and Cowards (320) – The Prague ‘House Regiment’ (344)
‘The King of Italy has declared war on Me`
‘Sacro egoismo’ (364) – The Treaty of London (370) – The Final Offer (375)
The Third Front
The Pre-emption (388) – On the Isonzo and in the Sette Comuni (392) – The War of Attrition (405)
Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915
Being a Soldier and the Burden of Work (422) – The Army High Command
and Domestic Policy (426) – Soldier Games ? (434) – The Attempt to Topple Stürgkh (437)
Summer Battle and ‘Autumn Swine’
On the Priority of the Theatres of War (443) – The ‘Black-Yellow’ Offensive (450) – The Fourth Offensive against Serbia (460)
War Aims and Central Europe
The Salonika Problem (471) – Winter War in Russia and Montenegro (475) – The Central Powers and Central Europe (479) – The Vision of Peace with Victory (487)
South Tyrol : The End of an Illusion (I)
The Easter Demands (500) – The ‘Punitive Expedition’ is Prepared (504) – The Attack (515)
Lutsk: The End of an Illusion (II)
The Brusilov Offensive (523) – The Hindenburg Front (533) – Poison Gas (541) – The ‘Joint Supreme War Command’ (545) How is a War Financed?
The Search for the Nervus Rerum (557) – The War Bonds (565) – The Raging of the Banknote Presses (578)
The Nameless
The Peace Campaign of the Central Powers (590) – Hohenzollern against Habsburg (593) – On the Convention of the Austrian Parliament (599) – Count Karl Stürgkh (1859–1916) (603)
The Death of the Old Emperor
Obituary for the Father Figure (615) – The Geriatric Circle (622) – The Military Chancellery of His Majesty (628) – The Heir to the Throne (633) – The Will (636)
Emperor Karl
The Master’s New Servants (645) – The Hindenburg Programme (651) – From Koerber to Clam-Martinic (653) – Famine and Coronation (657)
The Writing on the Wall
The Victory over Romania (667) – Steps towards Peace (669) – The Unrestricted Submarine War (675) – The Conrad Crisis (684)
The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution
Strategic Harmony (693) – The Fall of the Tsar (695) – Peace without Annexations and Contributions (700) – Workers of the world, unite ! (705) – The Reopening of the Reichsrat (709)
Summer 1917
Clam-Martinic Faces Defeat (715) – The System Eats its Own Children (722) – The Military Administration in the Occupied Territories (729)
– Tisza’s Fall (738)
Kerensky Offensive and Peace Efforts
The Naval Victory in the Strait of Otranto (745) – The ‘Hand of the Child’ (749) – The Czech Legion (753) – A German General on the Danube
Monarchy (760) – Peace Feelers (764)
The Pyrrhic Victory : The Breakthrough Battle of Flitsch-Tolmein
The Fortress Syndrome (771) – Operation ‘Loyalty to Arms’ (777) – War against the USA (798)
Camps
Strangers in the Homeland (806) – ) – The Internees (819) – On Ivans,
Serbs and Wops (822) – Siberian Clarity (833) – Italy (841)
Peace Feelers in the Shadow of Brest-Litovsk
The Russian October Revolution (847) – New Discussions in Switzerland
(851) – Poland Again (854) – The Turn of the Year, 1918 (856) – The Negotiations in Brest (863) – Wilson’s Fourteen Points (866)
The Inner Front
The January Strikes (871) – Continuation in Brest (875) – The ‘Bread Peace’ (880) – Mutiny (885)
The June Battle in Veneto
The ‘Parma Conspiracy’ (897) – The Collapse of the Armaments Industry (906) – The Idea for a Final Offensive (910) – The Alliance of Arms (913) – The Attack (917)
30 An Empire Resigns.
Brigadier von Bolzano is Missing (929) – Four Million Heroes (936) – The Army Disintegrates (944)
The Twilight Empire
The Judgement of Austria-Hungary’s Final Offensive (957) – The Penultimate
Cabinet of Habsburg Austria (961) – The Radicals Set the Agenda (964) – Austro-Hungarian Troops on the Western Front (968)
– D’Annunzio over Vienna (971) – The Sinking of the Szent István (975) –Front and Hinterland (978)
The War becomes History
The Emperor’s Manifesto (987) – The Dissolution Begins (992) – The Attack by the Allies (998) – The Armistice of Villa Giusti (1002) – The Last Army Supreme Commander (1006) – Te Deum Laudamus (1008)
EpilogueAcknowledgements and Dedication