A Mad Catastrophe Tops many barely having entered manhood

many barely having entered manhood

Covering the period 1871–1918

from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration Trilogy

The First World War was a truely global event that changed the course of history in many participating as well as non-participating countries

From a storytelling perspective

A Mad Catastrophe Tops many barely having entered manhoodDescription by Geoffrey Wawro Paperback A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern FrontThe Austro Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging obsolete weapons, the Habsburg troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume