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A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Wawro

Publisher: Basic Books
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0465028357

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✦ Synopsis

A prizewinning military historian explores a critical but overlooked cause for World War I: the staggering decrepitude of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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