Beschreibung:
W¿odzimierz Borodziej is Professor for Contemporary History at the University of Warsaw.
Examines the origins, outbreak and early campaigns of the First World War in Central and Eastern Europe to reconstruct the experiences, changes in minds, behaviour and habits of people, uniformed or not, males and females, from multiple nations located in an imagined triangle between Helsinki, Bucharest and Vienna.
List of Figures; Introduction; Part I. The Fronts: 1. The Road to War; 2. Prelude: The Balkans 1912¿1913; 3. Before the Leaves Fall from the Trees; 4. Breakthrough; Part II. The Rear: 5. The Hinterland; 6. The Hunger for Information; 7. Loyalties; Part III. Occupation: 8. The First Moments; 9. New Orders; 10. Mission Civilisatrice; Afterword; Select Bibliography; Index.