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Series Information: Warfare and History
Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792 - 1914 traces was in Europe from the French Revolution to the eve of the First World War. The nineteenth century was profoundly affected by the Napoleonic style of warfare, which influenced all subsequent military development and shaped Europe's history, borders and culture. Throughout, this fine book treats warfare as a social and political phenomenon no less than a military and technologial one, and includes discussions of: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars Napoleon III and the militarization of Europe Bismark, Molkte, and the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71 New technologies and weapons Seapower, imperialism and naval warfare The origins and outbreak of the First World War Blending original research on Bismark's Wars, Austria-Hungary and Italy with the latest scholarship on European armies and navies in the modern period, this book details the evolution of land and naval warfare and highlights the swirling interplay of society, politics and military decision making.
An unprecedented history of American involvement in the Middle
East.
In this definitive and revelatory work, noted historian Geoffrey
Wawro approaches America's role in the Middle East in a
fundamentally new way-by encompassing the last century of the
entire region rather than focusing narrowly on a particular country
or era. With verve and authority, he offers piercing analysis of
the region's iconic events over the past one hundred years-from the
birth of Israel to the rise of Al Qaeda. Throughout, he draws
telling parallels between America's past mistakes and its current
dilemmas, proving that we're in today's muddle not just because of
our old errors but because we keep repeating those errors.
This is a new history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. Geoffrey Wawro describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Bohemia, and the wretched collapse of the Austrian army in July 1866. Blending military and social history, he describes the panic that overtook Austria's regiments in each clash with the Prussians. He reveals the blundering of the Austrian commandant who fumbled away key strategic advantages and ultimately lost a war--crucial to the fortunes of the Habsburg Monarchy--that most European pundits had predicted they would win.
The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront
the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had
a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array
of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were
hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would
shortly consume Europe.As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro
explains in A Mad Catastrophe , the doomed Austrian conscripts were
an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself,both
equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the
Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing
their forces in the west to engage the French and the British,
everything,the course of the war and the fate of empires and
alliances from Constantinople to London,hinged on the Habsburgs'
ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However,
Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed
out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels.
Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous
celebrity general, Conrad von Hoetzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians
managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their
declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in
Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in
ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on
deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire
before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and
the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a
riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how
a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the
Eastern Front, changing the course of European history.
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European and American archives for the first time, Geoffrey Wawro's Franco-Prussian War describes the war that followed in thrilling detail. While the armies mobilized in July 1870, the conflict appeared "too close to call." Prussia and its German allies had twice as many troops as the French. But Marshal Achille Bazaine's grognards ("old grumblers") were the stuff of legend, the most resourceful, battle-hardened, sharp-shooting troops in Europe, and they carried the best rifle in the world. From the political intrigues that began and ended the war to the bloody battles at Gravelotte and Sedan and the last murderous fights on the Loire and in Paris, this is the definitive history of the Franco-Prussian War. Dr. Geoffrey Wawro is Professor of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Wawro has published two books: The Austro-Prussian War (Cambridge, 1996) and Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914 (Routledge, 2000). He has published articles in The Journal of Military History, War in History, The International History Review, The Naval War College Review, American Scholar, and the European History Quarterly, and op-eds in the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Miami Herald, Hartford Courant, and Providence Journal. Wawro has won several academic prizes including the Austrian Cultural Institute Prize and the Society for Military History Moncado Prize for Excellence in the Writing of Military History. He has lectured widely on military innovation and international security in Europe, the U.S., and Canada and is host of the History Channel program Hardcover History--a weekly book show with leading historians, pundits, critics, statesmen and journalists.
This is a new history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. Geoffrey Wawro describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Bohemia, and the wretched collapse of the Austrian army in July 1866. Blending military and social history, he describes the panic that overtook Austria's regiments in each clash with the Prussians. He reveals the blundering of the Austrian commandant who fumbled away key strategic advantages and ultimately lost a war--crucial to the fortunes of the Habsburg Monarchy--that most European pundits had predicted they would win.
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 violently changed the course of
European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and
the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria
in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to
heel. Digging into many European and American archives for the
first time, Geoffrey Wawro's The Franco-Prussian War describes the
war that followed in thrilling detail. While the armies mobilized
in July 1870, the conflict appeared 'too close to call'. Prussia
and its German allies overwhelmingly outnumbered the French. But
Marshal Achille Bazaine's grognards ('old grumblers') were the
stuff of legend, the most resourceful, battle-hardened,
sharp-shooting troops in Europe. From the political intrigues that
began and ended the war to the bloody battles at Gravelotte and
Sedan and the last murderous fights on the Loire and in Paris, this
is a stunning, authoritative history of the Franco-Prussian War.
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