Campaigns of Austria-Hungary, books

[Gooner1]

Can someone recommend me any good histories of any of the campaigns fought by the k.u.k. during the Great War, in English.
Not fussy on which particular campaign just a good solid military history with Austria-Hungary as its focus.
Cheers.

[Old Prohaska]

May I suggest John R. Schindler's "Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War," which is an excellent account of Battles of the Isonzo. A nice companion piece is Mark Thompson's "The White War," which looks at the Italian Front from the Italian perspective.

Timothy Dowling's "The Brusilov Offensive" provides a good overview of the near-destruction of AH forces in the east. For a topic that is as fascinating as it is obscure, I can also recommend Paul Halpern's "The Battle of the Otranto Straights."

Old Prohaska

[Gooner1]

Thanks for those suggestions Old Prohaska, I shall follow them up.

There really does not seem to be all that much about Austria-Hungary in the Great War, in English. I am sure there are far more books concerning Austria in the Napoleonic wars.

[IanE]

Try these:
Fighting Troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1860-1914
Austro-Hungarian Infantry 1914-1918
The Army of Francis Joseph
Beyond Nationalism: A Social & Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps 1848-1918
Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War
Caporetto: Victory or Defeat
In Death’s Fortress
Skoda Heavy Guns
A Military Gazetteer of Europe, 1914; Vol 1: Austria-Hungary
Handbook of the Austro-Hungarian Army in War June 1918
Austro-Hungarian Forces in the Field October 1918
The Habsburg Empire and the Sea
The Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy 1904-1918
The Battle of the Otranto Straits
The Central Powers in the Adriatic 1914-1918
Military Operations in Italy 1915-1919
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia 1914-1918
Georg von Trapp: To the Last Salute
The Beginning of Futility
Futility ending in Disaster
Disaster ending in final victory
Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915
The Great Madness
Austro-Hungarian Army (World War 1)
Balkan Assault: The Diary of an Officer 1914-1918

Regards,
Ian

[Orwell1984]

Geoffrey Wawro has a new book on Austria-Hungary and its military due in April 1914
A Mad Castastrophe
http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-G ... atastrophe

[Gooner1]

Just to add one that I found searching through kaisertreu's great list:
'Siberian Prison' by Ernst v Enzmann is available on e-book for a very reasonable price.

[Tosun Saral]

My new book in Turkish lanquage: Austria-Hungarian Artillery Battalions at Gallipoli, Sina and Palestina Front during WW1
(Çanakkale, Sina-Filistin Cepheleri'nde Avusturya-Macaristan Ordusu Topcu Bataryaları)
It is the first book ever written in Turkey aboout KuK
Cover page: Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) inspecting Kuk automobile company at Diyarbakir.

[IanE]

Grooner 1,

Thank you for the information on 'Serbian Prison', I have ordered a copy.

Regards,
Ian

[Canary_Canuck]

Other books in my library ( but very out of date ) include:
" Captured " by Ferdinand H.Horvath.
" With the Austrian Army in Galicia " by Octavian Tasleanu
" 4 Weeks in the Trenches " by Fritz Kreisler ( the famed musician ).
These are all about the Eastern Front in WW1. Perhaps you can order them from a library. They were really good.
John

[WalterS]

Two excellent books are Geoffrey Wawro's A Mad Catastrophe, which is now available, and Collision of Empires: The First World War in the East, 1914 by Pritt Buttar.

Wawro concentrates almost exclusively on Austria-Hungary. He shows how the Habsburg Empire was in a state of advanced decay well before WWI started. He is highly critical of the Austrian High Command, in particular General Conrad von Hotzendorf. I found it to be a very interesting and enjoyable book. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the conduct of WWI from An AH perspective.

Buttar's Collision of Empires focuses on the opening months of the war in the east. He discusses the quicker than anticipated Russian mobilization and how that messed up the plans of both Germany and Austria-Hungary and resulted in some of the most significant battles of the early stages of the war. Because the three empires involved did not survive the war the eastern front is often eclipsed, especially in the US, by campaigns in the west. Buttar provides an excellent history of the early months of WWI in the east.