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Bezig met laden... Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary (editie 2015)door John R. Schindler (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. To a large degree I'm going to second the existing review of this book on all points. What I'd further add is that the author, having been a one-time serving military intelligence officer, does bring some additional insight in terms of speaking of that element of the story. Schindler also maintains a nice balance between not glossing over the shortcomings of the Austro-Hungarian military and the state and society it served while at the same time not vilifying it the way some of the more recent historians of the subject have gone out of their way to do. This is thus a fine one-stop introduction for the general reader of history who'd like to know something of the Duel Monarchy's role in the Great War. ( ) A very good analysis of the shortcomings of the Austro-Hungarian army in WW I, and the fateful consequences this had for the Empire. Although no army in 1914 was really ready to face modern warfare, the Austro-Hungarian army was particularily badly prepared. For one thing, in an age where the other great powers spent vast sums on armaments, it was chronically underfunded. For another, its function in the Empire was more to repress the internal dissidents and keep modernity at bay, rather than fight an external enemy. This meant that officers were more out of touch with the lives of their men and with the realities of industrial warfare than anywhere else. Finally, the generals (and especially Conrad) had a knack of drawing up clever plans without considering that they had the forces necessary to implement them. Schindler shows how the disastrous defeats of 1914 came about. The consequences were dire: the Austro-Hungarian war effort came to all intents and purposes under German control. Perhaps more importantly the army, through its inefficiency and callousness, lost its prestige and function as a support of the monarchy. There is only one important drawback to the book: the complete absence of maps. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Examination of the Battle for Galicia (23 August-11 September 1914), the most historically and strategically consequential of the Great War's three opening campaigns"--
"Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the Battle for Galicia in August 1914 -- and the unprecedented carnage that resulted -- effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire just six weeks into the war. In Fall of the Double Eagle, John R. Schindler explains how Austria-Hungary, despite military weakness and the foreseeable ill consequences, consciously chose war in that fateful summer of 1914. Through close examination of the Austro-Hungarian military, especially its elite general staff, Schindler shows how even a war that Vienna would likely lose appeared preferable to the 'foul peace' the senior generals loathed. After Serbia outgunned the polyglot empire in a humiliating defeat, and the offensive into Russian Poland ended in the massacre of more than four hundred thousand Austro-Hungarians in just three weeks, the empire never recovered. While Austria-Hungary's ultimate defeat and dissolution were postponed until the autumn of 1918, the late summer of 1914 on the plains and hills of Galicia sealed its fate"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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