The resurrection and collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia, 1914-1918

This book examines the Habsburg Army#s occupation of Serbia from 1914 through 1918. This occupation ran along a distinctly European-centered trajectory radically different from other great power colonial projects or occupations during the 20th century. Unlike these projects and occupations, the Habsburg Army sought ...

The ottoman road to war in 1914

the ottoman empire and the First World War

Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war#s devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the ...

Mussolini and his generals

the armed forces and fascist foreign policy, 1922-1940

This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940. Using extensive new research, John Gooch explores the ...