A text on the coming of World War I in relation to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Part of a series of specially commissioned titles focusing on significant and often controversial events and themes of world history in the present century.
"In July 1914, desperation, blind faith, hope, ambition, and exhaustion overcame prudence, experience, and caution [...] War brought not victory or a solution to the Slav problem, but rather defeat and dissolution. From those results momentous consequences still flow."