A Mad Catastrophe Tops from the Booker Prize-winning author

from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration Trilogy

It was on the Western Front that chemical warfare

many barely having entered manhood

Officials in the military and government

this woeful disaster has been forgotten by history

A Mad Catastrophe Tops from the Booker Prize-winning authorDescription 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