{"product_id":"9781612347653-fall-of-the-double-eagle-the-battle-for-galicia-and-the-demise-of-austria-hungary","title":"Schindler John R. - Fall Of The Double Eagle The Battle For Galicia And The Demise Of Austria - Hungary - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: \" A must - read for students of history and historians alike.\" Washington Book Review 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Fall Of The Double Eagle The Battle For Galicia And The Demise Of Austria - Hungary\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Schindler John R.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Potomac Books Inc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781612347653\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 360 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 12\/1\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: War \u0026amp; Defence Operations","brand":"Schindler John R.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49621811429681,"sku":"IN-G-9781612347653","price":26.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781612347653.jpg?v=1724715965","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781612347653-fall-of-the-double-eagle-the-battle-for-galicia-and-the-demise-of-austria-hungary","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}