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

1 On the Eve (11)  The Ballhausplatz and the Deficit of War (16) – The Powder Keg (21) –  The Socialisation of Violence (33) – Poor State, Wealthy Businesses (43)  2 Two Million Men for the War (49)  The ‘entire armed force’ (51) – Dual Alliance and Triple Alliance (62) – The  Military Accords (67) – Pre-emptive War: Yes or No? (77)  3 Bloody Sundays (81)  The Assassination (83) – The Shock (87) – The July Crisis (90)  4 Unleashing the War (117)  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)  5 ‘Thank God, this is the Great War!’ (157)  Deployment in Echelons and Packets (159) – Archduke ‘Fritzl’ Goes to the  Front (175) – The Mounted Engagement at Jarosławice (180) – The Initial  Campaigns (183)  6 Adjusting to a Longer War (197)  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)  7 The End of the Euphoria (239)  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)  6 Content  8 The First Winter of the War (283)  On the War’s Objectives (286) – Death in the Carpathians (297) – Gorlice  – Tarnów (311)  9 Under Surveillance (317)  Of Heroes and Cowards (320) – The Prague ‘House Regiment’ (344)  10 ‘The King of Italy has declared war on Me’ (355)  ‘Sacro egoismo’ (364) – The Treaty of London (370) – The Final Offer (375)  11 The Third Front (383)  The Pre-emption (388) – On the Isonzo and in the Sette Comuni (392) –  The War of Attrition (405)  12 Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915 (413)  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)  13 Summer Battle and ‘Autumn Swine’ (441)  On the Priority of the Theatres of War (443) – The ‘Black-Yellow’ Offensive (450) – The Fourth Offensive against Serbia (460)  14 War Aims and Central Europe (469)  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)  15 South Tyrol: The End of an Illusion (I) (497)  The Easter Demands (500) – The ‘Punitive Expedition’ is Prepared (504) –  The Attack (515)  16 Lutsk:The End of an Illusion (II) (521)  The Brusilov Offensive (523) – The Hindenburg Front (533) – Poison  Gas (541) – The ‘Joint Supreme War Command’ (545)  17 How is a War Financed? (555)  The Search for the Nervus Rerum (557) – The War Bonds (565) – The Raging of the Banknote Presses (578)  Content 7  18 The Nameless (583)  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)  19 The Death of the Old Emperor (607)  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)  20 Emperor Karl (641)  The Master’s New Servants (645) – The Hindenburg Programme (651) –  From Koerber to Clam-Martinic (653) – Famine and Coronation (657)  21 The Writing on the Wall (657)  The Victory over Romania (667) – Steps towards Peace (669) – The Unrestricted Submarine War (675) – The Conrad Crisis (684)  22 The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution (691)  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)  23 Summer 1917 (713)  Clam-Martinic Faces Defeat (715) – The System Eats its Own Children (722) – The Military Administration in the Occupied Territories (729)  – Tisza’s Fall (738)  24 Kerensky Offensive and Peace Efforts (743)  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)  25 The Pyrrhic Victory: The Breakthrough Battle of Flitsch-Tolmein (769)  The Fortress Syndrome (771) – Operation ‘Loyalty to Arms’ (777) – War  against the USA (798)  8 Content  26 Camps (803)  Strangers in the Homeland (806) – ) – The Internees (819) – On Ivans,  Serbs and Wops (822) – Siberian Clarity (833) – Italy (841)  27 Peace Feelers in the Shadow of Brest-Litovsk (845)  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)  28 The Inner Front (869)  The January Strikes (871) – Continuation in Brest (875) – The ‘Bread  Peace’ (880) – Mutiny (885)  29 The June Battle in Veneto (895)  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 (927)  Brigadier von Bolzano is Missing (929) – Four Million Heroes (936) – The  Army Disintegrates (944)  31 The Twilight Empire (955)  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)  32 The War becomes History (983)  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)  Epilogue (1011)  Afterword (1013)  Acknowledgements and Dedication (1019)  Content 9  Notes (1023)  Selected Printed Sources and Literature (1115)  Index of People and Places (1155)