LEADER 03602nam 2200649 450 001 9910797743803321 005 20230807205147.0 010 $a1-61234-804-1 010 $a1-61234-806-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000517241 035 $a(EBL)4097309 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4097309 035 $a(OCoLC)930017860 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46598 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4097973 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4097309 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11121380 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL871470 035 $a(OCoLC)932332303 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4097973 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11121390 035 $a(OCoLC)929952413 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000517241 100 $a20151211h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFall of the Double Eagle $ethe Battle for Galicia and the demise of Austria-Hungary /$fJohn R. Schindler 210 1$a[Herndon, Virginia] :$cPotomac Books,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61234-765-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- AEIOU -- The most powerful pillar -- War plans -- July crisis -- Disaster on the Drina -- To Warsaw! -- Meeting the steamroller -- Lemberg-Rawa Ruska -- From defeat to catastrophe -- Aftermaths. 330 $a"Examination of the Battle for Galicia (23 August-11 September 1914), the most historically and strategically consequential of the Great War's three opening campaigns"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the Battle for Galicia in August 1914 -- and the unprecedented carnage that resulted -- effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire just six weeks into the war. In Fall of the Double Eagle, John R. Schindler explains how Austria-Hungary, despite military weakness and the foreseeable ill consequences, consciously chose war in that fateful summer of 1914. Through close examination of the Austro-Hungarian military, especially its elite general staff, Schindler shows how even a war that Vienna would likely lose appeared preferable to the 'foul peace' the senior generals loathed. After Serbia outgunned the polyglot empire in a humiliating defeat, and the offensive into Russian Poland ended in the massacre of more than four hundred thousand Austro-Hungarians in just three weeks, the empire never recovered. While Austria-Hungary's ultimate defeat and dissolution were postponed until the autumn of 1918, the late summer of 1914 on the plains and hills of Galicia sealed its fate"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns$zEastern Front 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns$zGalicia (Poland and Ukraine) 607 $aGalicia (Poland and Ukraine)$xHistory, Military 607 $aAustria$xHistory$yFranz Joseph I, 1848-1916 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns 676 $a940.4/22 686 $aHIS027090$aHIS032000$2bisacsh 700 $aSchindler$b John R.$0176637 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797743803321 996 $aFall of the Double Eagle$93858037 997 $aUNINA