A Mad Catastrophe Tops It was on the Western

It was on the Western Front that chemical warfare

by Val Shushkewich

What had been a pastoral collection of farms and merchants was rapidly transformed into a dynamic

from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration Trilogy

this woeful disaster has been forgotten by history

A Mad Catastrophe Tops It was on the WesternDescription by Geoffrey Wawro Paperback A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern FrontThe Austro Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging obsolete weapons, the Habsburg troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume