A Mad Catastrophe Tops headed toward the fighting

headed toward the fighting

What had been a pastoral collection of farms and merchants was rapidly transformed into a dynamic

by Val Shushkewich

soldiers of all nations sought to protect themselves through magical and religious rituals

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

A Mad Catastrophe Tops headed toward the fightingDescription 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