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Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary Hardcover - 2015

by John R. Schindler


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Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the battle for Galicia in August 1914--and the unprecedented carnage that resulted--effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire just six weeks into the war.

In Fall of the Double Eagle, John R. Schindler explains how Austria-Hungary, despite military weakness and the foreseeable ill consequences, consciously chose war in that fateful summer of 1914. Through close examination of the Austro-Hungarian military, especially its elite general staff, Schindler shows how even a war that Vienna would likely lose appeared preferable to the "foul peace" the senior generals loathed. After Serbia outgunned the polyglot empire in a humiliating defeat, and the offensive into Russian Poland ended in the massacre of more than four hundred thousand Austro-Hungarians in just three weeks, the empire never recovered. While Austria-Hungary's ultimate defeat and dissolution were postponed until the autumn of 1918, the late summer of 1914 on the plains and hills of Galicia sealed its fate.


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  • Title Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
  • Author John R. Schindler
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Potomac Books, United States of America
  • Date 2015-12-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9781612347653 / 1612347657
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.94 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Causes, Austria - History - Franz Joseph I, 1848-1916
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015013277
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.422

About the author

John R. Schindler is a strategist, military historian, and security consultant whose work focuses on strategy, intelligence, and terrorism. Previously he was an intelligence analyst with the National Security Agency and a professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War and Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad and the coauthor of The Terrorist Perspectives Project: Strategic and Operational Views of Al-Qaida and Associated Movements.

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