- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Kaiser’s Cuirassiers -
Chapter 2 For God and Emperor -
Chapter 3 ‘The noble knight’ -
Chapter 4 ‘Our Blood and Life’ -
Chapter 5 Austria Resurgent -
Chapter 6 Mater Castrorum -
Chapter 7 The Army and the Josephinian Enlightenment -
Chapter 8 The Army and the French Revolution -
Chapter 9 From Marengo to Austerlitz -
Chapter 10 Shattering the Myth -
Chapter 11 Clash of Titans -
Chapter 12 From Znaim to Leipzig -
Chapter 13 Biedermeier, Vormärz and Radetzky -
Chapter 14 From Magenta and Solferino to the Düppel and Oeversee -
Chapter 15 The Austro-Prussian War -
Chapter 16 Victories in the South -
Chapter 17 k. (u.) k. -
Chapter 18 Towards a Twentieth-century Navy -
Chapter 19 The Evidenzbüro and Colonel Redl. -
Chapter 20 The Military Road to Sarajevo -
Chapter 21 The Army and the July Crisis -
Chapter 22 Austria-Hungary’s Last War -
Chapter 23 1915–1916 -
Chapter 24 1916–1918 -
Chapter 25 Finis Austriae? -
Chapter 26 Aftermath - Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration
For God and Emperor
For God and Emperor
The Relief of Vienna
- Chapter:
- (p.38) Chapter 2 For God and Emperor
- Source:
- For God and Kaiser
- Author(s):
Richard Bassett
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter describes the Siege of Vienna, which remains one of the great set pieces of Austrian and indeed European history. From a tactical viewpoint its significance lies entirely in the defensive brilliance of the Austrian Stadtkommandant, Ernst Rudiger Starhemberg, and the subsequent character of the city's relief by a multinational force. In terms of military prestige, its effects were more widely felt. Vienna had withstood an ordeal no major European city had ever experienced. Austria's role as a bulwark of Christendom was loudly proclaimed and its army celebrated for saving Europe from the Turks. The events of 1683 burnished the reputation of the Habsburgs' armed forces, giving them confidence to face the struggles ahead, especially to the east.
Keywords: Siege of Vienna, Habsburg army, Austrian army, Ernst Rudiger Starhemberg, Turks
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Kaiser’s Cuirassiers -
Chapter 2 For God and Emperor -
Chapter 3 ‘The noble knight’ -
Chapter 4 ‘Our Blood and Life’ -
Chapter 5 Austria Resurgent -
Chapter 6 Mater Castrorum -
Chapter 7 The Army and the Josephinian Enlightenment -
Chapter 8 The Army and the French Revolution -
Chapter 9 From Marengo to Austerlitz -
Chapter 10 Shattering the Myth -
Chapter 11 Clash of Titans -
Chapter 12 From Znaim to Leipzig -
Chapter 13 Biedermeier, Vormärz and Radetzky -
Chapter 14 From Magenta and Solferino to the Düppel and Oeversee -
Chapter 15 The Austro-Prussian War -
Chapter 16 Victories in the South -
Chapter 17 k. (u.) k. -
Chapter 18 Towards a Twentieth-century Navy -
Chapter 19 The Evidenzbüro and Colonel Redl. -
Chapter 20 The Military Road to Sarajevo -
Chapter 21 The Army and the July Crisis -
Chapter 22 Austria-Hungary’s Last War -
Chapter 23 1915–1916 -
Chapter 24 1916–1918 -
Chapter 25 Finis Austriae? -
Chapter 26 Aftermath - Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration
