A Mad Catastrophe Tops From a storytelling perspective

From a storytelling perspective

from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration Trilogy

soldiers of all nations sought to protect themselves through magical and religious rituals

The First World War was a truely global event that changed the course of history in many participating as well as non-participating countries

It was on the Western Front that chemical warfare

A Mad Catastrophe Tops From a storytelling perspectiveDescription 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