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  title info:
    title: Fall of the Double Eagle
    sub title: the Battle for Galicia and the demise of Austria-Hungary
  name:
    name part: Schindler, John R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nbu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 347 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 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.
  note: John R. Schindler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-pl---
    geographic code: e-un---
    geographic code: e-au---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Causes
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Eastern Front
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
  subject:
    geographic: Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
    topic: History, Military
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Habsburg, House of
  subject:
    geographic: Austria
    topic: History
    temporal: Franz Joseph I, 1848-1916
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Russia.
      name part: Armii︠a︡
    topic: History
    temporal: World War, 1914-1918
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / World War I
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  classification: D512 .S34 2015
  classification: 940.4/22
  identifier: 9781612347653
  identifier: 1612347657
  identifier: 9781612348049
  identifier: 9781612348056
  identifier: 9781612348063
  identifier: 2015013277
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150527
    record change date: 20170928110429.0
    record identifier: in00003605720