The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War

This is a definitive account of the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how Austria-Hungary entered the war woefully unprepared for the ordeal it would endure. When the war commenced, the Habsburg Army proved grossly under strengthen relative to trained officers and manpower, possessing obsolete weapons and equipment, and with the vast majority of its troops proved inadequately trained for modern warfare. Well over one million Habsburg troops mobilized creating an enormous logistical challenge of forging an army from the diverse cultures, languages, economic and educational backgrounds of the Empire's peoples. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how the army suffered from poor strategic direction and outdated tactics and facing a two-front offensive against both Russia and Serbia. He charts the army's performance on the battlefields of Galicia, Serbia, Romania, the Middle East and Italy through to its ultimate collapse in 1918.

Product details

• Authors: Graydon A. Tunstall, Graydon A. (University of South Florida) Tunstall, Tunstall Graydon A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780521181242
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18124-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Armies of the Great War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; First World War, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1910 to c 1919, Modern warfare, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I