For God and kaiser the Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918

Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's 'For God and Kaiser' is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, time and again, was a decisive facto...

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Main Author: Bassett, Richard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 : The Habsburg Connection
  • The Kaiser's Cuirassiers: A Dynasty Saved
  • For God and Emperor: The Relief of Vienna
  • 'The noble knight': Prince Eugene and the War of the Spanish Succession
  • 'Our Blood and Life': The Great Empress
  • Austria Resurgent: Theresian Military Reforms
  • Mater Castrorum
  • The Army and the Josephinian Enlightenment-- Part 2 : Revolution and Reaction
  • The Army and the French Revolution
  • From Marengo to Austerlitz: The Second and Third Coalition Wars
  • Shattering the Myth: Aspern and Essling
  • Clash of Titans: Wagram
  • From Znaim to Leipzig
  • Biedermeier, Vormärz and Radetzky
  • From Magenta and Solferino to the Düppel and Oeversee
  • The Austro-Prussian War: Königgrätz 1866
  • Victories in the South: Custozza and Lissa 1866
  • Part 3 : Imperial and Royal
  • k. (u.) k.: The 'new army' and the Bosnian Insurgency
  • Towards a Twentieth-century Navy: The Siege at Pekin
  • The Evidenzbüro and Colonel Redl.: The k. (u.) k. Army on the Eve of Catastrophe
  • The Military Road to Sarajevo
  • The Army and the July Crisis
  • Austria-Hungary's Last War: 1914
  • 1915-1916: Bayonets in the Dolomites
  • 1916-1918: The End of the Old Army
  • Finis Austriae?-- Aftermath