Book description
Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2014
Winner of the 2014 Wolfson History Prize, the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, the Society for Military History's 2015 Distinguished Book Award and the 2015 British Army Military Book of the Year
For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the GreatâŠ
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Watson's writing did more than just explain the First World War from the perspective of Germany and Austria-Hungary - although that alone would have been enough to make it a fascinating read - but on top of that it gave me a window into the people themselves as the world they knew was torn apart and their future quite literally blown up before their very eyes.
After 1918, many German and Austrian Habsburg officers blamed their defeat on being âstabbed in the backâ by civilian âshirkersâ, leftists, and (in the Habsburg case) fractious nationalists.
Both states indeed failed to manage their home fronts but, as Alexander Watson shows in his compelling account of this titanic conflict, there were far more complex reasons for the warâs outcome, not least the willingness of the high command in both states to embark on a conflict they had no realistic chance of winning.
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