Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War

by Samuel R. Williamson Jr., Samuel J. Williamson, Samuel R. Williamson Jr

Book Overview

A major re-examination of Habsburg decision-making from 1912 to July 1914, the study argues that Austria-Hungary and not Germany made the crucial decisions for war in the summer of 1914. Based on extensive new archival research, the book traces the gradual militarization of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy during the Balkan Wars. The disasters of those wars and the death of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir-apparent and a force for peace in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333420810
• ISBN13: 9780333420812
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"