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Translated from the German

by Alex J. Kay and Anna Güttel-Bellert

Manfried Rauchensteiner

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 – 1918

2014

böhl au verl ag w ien

köln

weimar

Published with the support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) :

PUB 168-G16

Published with the support from the Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich

Revised and expanded edition of

The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy,

1914–1918, first

published in 1993

First published in 2013 in the German language as “Der Erste Weltkrieg und das Ende der Habsburgermonar-

chie 1914–1918” by Böhlau Verlag Ges.m.b.H. & Co.KG., Wien – Köln –Weimar

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Cover:

Detail from: Albin Egger-Lienz,

The Nameless Ones,

1914; tempera on canvas, 1916 © Vienna, Heeresge-

schichtliches Museum

Other illustrations:

First-page illustrations for the chapters 1, 13, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 29 Österreichische Nationalbiblio-

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ISBN 978-3-205-79588-9