Manfried Rauchensteiner ist Historiker, Universitätsprofessor und Autor zahlreicher Bücher, darunter das Standardwerk "Der Erste Weltkrieg und das Ende der Habsburgermonarchie 1914-1918". Er lebt und arbeitet in Wien.

1 On the Eve
The Ballhausplatz and the Deficit of War (16 ) - The Powder Keg (21 ) - The Socialisation of Violence (33) - Poor State, Wealthy Businesses (43)
2 Two Million Men for the War
The 'entire armed force' (51 ) - Dual Alliance and Triple Alliance (62 ) - The Military Accords (67 ) - Pre-emptive War: Yes or No? (77)
3 Bloody Sundays
The Assassination (83 ) - The Shock (87 ) - The July Crisis (90)
4 Unleashing the War
Franz Joseph I (120 ) - The Calm before the Storm (123 ) - The 'Skir-mish' near Temes-Kubin (127 ) - Salvation through War (136 ) - The First Shot (141 ) - An Empire Mobilises (144)
5 'Thank God, this is the Great War!'
Deployment in Echelons and Packets (159 ) - Archduke 'Fritzl' Goes to the Front (175 ) - The Mounted Engagement at Jaroslawice (180 ) - The Initial Campaigns (183)
6 Adjusting to a Longer War
The War Economy Dominates Everyday Life (200 ) - Wounded, Sick and Dead (215 ) - The Home Front Becomes a Fortress (219 ) - Official Announcements (223 ) - The Death of General Wodniansky (226)
7 The End of the Euphoria
The Fortress on the San (242 ) - Fleet in Being (260 ) - In the Shadow of the Gallows (264 ) - Belgrade and the Failure in the Balkans (272)
8 The First Winter of the War
On the War's Objectives (286 ) - Death in the Carpathians (297 ) - Gorlice - Tarnów (311)
9 Under Surveillance
Of Heroes and Cowards (320 ) - The Prague 'House Regiment' (344)
10 'The King of Italy has declared war on Me'
'Sacro egoismo' (364 ) - The Treaty of London (370 ) - The Final Offer (375)
11 The Third Front
The Pre-emption (388 ) - On the Isonzo and in the Sette Comuni (392 ) - The War of Attrition (405)
12 Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915
Being a Soldier and the Burden of Work (422 ) - The Army High Command and Domestic Policy (426 ) - Soldier Games ? (434 ) - The Attempt to Topple Stürgkh (437)
13 Summer Battle and 'Autumn Swine'
On the Priority of the Theatres of War (443 ) - The 'Black-Yellow' Offensive (450 ) - The Fourth Offensive against Serbia (460)
14 War Aims and Central Europe
The Salonika Problem (471 ) - Winter War in Russia and Montenegro (475 ) - The Central Powers and Central Europe (479 ) - The Vision of Peace with Victory (487)
15 South Tyrol: The End of an Illusion (I)
The Easter Demands (500 ) - The 'Punitive Expedition' is Prepared (504 ) - The Attack (515)
16 Lutsk:The End of an Illusion (II)
The Brusilov Offensive (523 ) - The Hindenburg Front (533 ) - Poison Gas (541 ) - The 'Joint Supreme War Command' (545)
17 How is a War Financed ?
The Search for the Nervus Rerum (557 ) - The War Bonds (565 ) - The Raging of the Banknote Presses (578)
18 The Nameless
The Peace Campaign of the Central Powers (590 ) - Hohenzollern against Habsburg (593 ) - On the Convention of the Austrian Parliament (599 ) - Count Karl Stürgkh (1859-1916) (603)
19 The Death of the Old Emperor
Obituary for the Father Figure (615 ) - The Geriatric Circle (622 ) - The Military Chancellery of His Majesty (628 ) - The Heir to the Throne (633 ) - The Will (636)
20 Emperor Karl
The Master's New Servants (645 ) - The Hindenburg Programme (651 ) - From Koerber to Clam-Martinic (653 ) - Famine and Coronation (657)
21 The Writing on the Wall
The Victory over Romania (667 ) - Steps towards Peace (669 ) - The Unrestricted Submarine War (675 ) - The Conrad Crisis (684)
22 The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution
Strategic Harmony (693 ) - The Fall of the Tsar (695 ) - Peace without Annexations and Contributions (700 ) - Workers of the world, unite ! (705 ) - The Reopening of the Reichsrat (709)
23 Summer 1917
Clam-Martinic Faces Defeat (715 ) - The System Eats its Own Children (722 ) - The Military Administration in the Occupied Territories (729 )
- Tisza's Fall (738)
24 Kerensky Offensive and Peace Efforts
The Naval Victory in the Strait of Otranto (745 ) - The 'Hand of the Child' (749 ) - The Czech Legion (753) - A German General on the Danube Monarchy (760 ) - Peace Feelers (764)
25 The Pyrrhic Victory: The Breakthrough Battle of Flitsch-Tolmein
The Fortress Syndrome (771 ) - Operation 'Loyalty to Arms' (777 ) - War against the USA (798)
26 Camps
Strangers in the Homeland (806) - ) - The Internees (819 ) - On Ivans, Serbs and Wops (822 ) - Siberian Clarity (833 ) - Italy (841)
27 Peace Feelers in the Shadow of Brest-Litovsk
The Russian October Revolution (847 ) - New Discussions in Switzerland (851 ) - Poland Again (854 ) - The Turn of the Year, 1918 (856 ) - The Negotiations in Brest (863 ) - Wilson's Fourteen Points (866)
28 The Inner Front
The January Strikes (871 ) - Continuation in Brest (875 ) - The 'Bread Peace' (880 ) - Mutiny (885)
29 The June Battle in Veneto
The 'Parma Conspiracy' (897 ) - The Collapse of the Armaments Industry (906 ) - The Idea for a Final Offensive (910 ) - The Alliance of Arms (913 ) - The Attack (917)
30 An Empire Resigns
Brigadier von Bolzano is Missing (929 ) - Four Million Heroes (936 ) - The Army Disintegrates (944)
31 The Twilight Empire
The Judgement of Austria-Hungary's Final Offensive (957 ) - The Penultimate Cabinet of Habsburg Austria (961 ) - The Radicals Set the Agenda (964 ) - Austro-Hungarian Troops on the Western Front (968 ) - D'Annunzio over Vienna (971 ) - The Sinking of the Szent István (975 ) - Front and Hinterland (978)
32 The War becomes History
The Emperor's Manifesto (987 ) - The Dissolution Begins (992 ) - The Attack by the Allies (998 ) - The Armistice of Villa Giusti (1002 ) - The Last Army Supreme Commander (1006 ) - Te Deum Laudamus (1008)
Epilogue
Afterword
Acknowledgements and Dedication
Notes
Selected Printed Sources and Literature
Index of People and Places