The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy

Serbia (460) 14 War Aims and Central Europe 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) The Easter Demands (500 ) - The 'Punitive Expedition' is Prepared (504 ) - The Attack (515) 16 Lutsk:The End of an Illusion (II) The Brusilov Offensive (523 ) - The Hindenburg Front (533 ) - Poison Gas (541 ) - The 'Joint Supreme War Command' (545) 17 How is a War Financed ? The Search for the Nervus Rerum (557 ) - The War Bonds (565 ) - The Raging of the Banknote Presses (578) 18 The Nameless 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Fortress Syndrome (771 ) - Operation 'Loyalty to Arms' (777 ) - War against the USA (798) 26 Camps 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 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 The January Strikes (871 ) - Continuation in Brest (875 ) - The 'Bread Peace' (880 ) - Mutiny (885) 29 The June Battle in Veneto 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 Brigadier von Bolzano is Missing (929 ) - Four Million Heroes (936 ) - The Army Disintegrates (944) 31 The Twilight Empire 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 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 Afterword Acknowledgements and Dedication Notes Selected Printed Sources and Literature Index of People and Places