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100 1 $aHerwig, Holger H.
245 14 $aThe First World War :$bGermany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918 /$cHolger H. Herwig.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bArnold ;$aNew York :$bDistributed exclusively in the United States of America by Oxford University Press,$c1997.
300 $axix, 490 p. :$bmaps ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aModern wars
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [453]-478) and index.
505 0 $a1. Origins: 'Now or Never'. Vienna: War as Salvation. Berlin: The 'Calculated Risk'. The 'Leap into the Dark'. Questionable Allies: Britain and Italy. The 'Mood of 1914' -- 2. The Plans of War. Almost Allies: Conrad and Moltke to 1914. Conrad von Hotzendorf: War at any Price. Moltke: The March to the Marne. Plan 19: The Russian 'Steamroller'. Plan XVII: A Berlin. Britain: Continental Commitment? -- 3. The Great Gamble, 1914. 'This War is Great and Wonderful'. Tannenberg: Reality and Myth. Conrad's War. The Battle of the Marne. The Last Hurrah -- 4. Towards Industrialized War, 1915. The German Command System Implodes. Wars of 'Limited Means'. The Italian 'Snake'. 'The Bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier'. Deadlock: The Western Front -- 5. Dual defeats: from the Meuse to the Sereth, 1916. Verdun: 'The Heart of France'. The Somme: 'Battles of Material'. Lutsk: 'Lack of Luck'. The Romanian Detour -- 6. The long-war reality, 1915-16. Austria-Hungary: On the Brink. Of Men and Machines: The Third OHL. 'Total War': Reality and Myth -- 7. Survival. Hunger: Austria-Hungary. Beleaguered Fortress: Germany. Death, Disease, and Doctors. The Politics of 'Total' War -- 8. A sea-change, 1917. U-Boat Warfare: Playing Va Banque. The Nivelle Offensive: A Berlin Once More. Triumph in the East. Caporetto: A Cosmetic Victory -- 9. The last levy, 1917-18. The Hollow Ally. Strikes and Mutinies. The k.u.k. Army Disintegrates. Germany: Mutinies, Strikes and Megalomania -- 10. Operation Michael: the 'last card'. Tactical Virtuosity. The Battle. The Turning Point -- 11. Defeat, 1918-19. Finis Austriae. Finis Prussiae.
520 1 $a"The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million dead, and sowed some of the seeds of another worldwide conflagration 20 years later. Yet, until now, there has been no comprehensive treatment of how Germany and Austria-Hungary - two of the key belligerents - conducted the war and what defeat meant to them." "Much of the writing on the war has hallowed the tactical and operational effectiveness of the German army. Yet Germany lost the conflict. In tackling this paradox, Herwig shows how greatly the Central Powers suffered from inadequate resources and an incapacity to manage effectively what they had. He also shows with clarity just how much of Germany's effort was expended in sustaining not only its own war effort but also that of its ally, without any corresponding subordination of Vienna to Berlin, as the economic and military realities required. But it is in his reassessment of Germany's military effectiveness that he offers the most fundamental corrective. For readers accustomed to criticisms of the various Allied commanders, Herwig's examination of the German military effort will have uncanny echoes. Even the famous German offensives of March 1918, regarded as a model of breakthrough operations by interwar theorists, are condemned not just for their lack of strategic objective but even for their tactical failings."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zAustria.
830 0 $aModern wars.
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