- 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
Aftermath
Aftermath
- Chapter:
- (p.535) Chapter 26 Aftermath
- Source:
- For God and Kaiser
- Author(s):
Richard Bassett
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter describes events following Emperor Charles' decision to dissolve the monarchy and withdraw from political life, particularly the fate of the officers and soldiers of the Habsburg army. Charles decision would dislocate centuries-old structures and traumatise Central Europe for most of the twentieth century. By granting the calls for freedom and all that this demanded, the last Habsburg Kaiser acted as a catalyst for the two great movements of twentieth-century European history: nationalism and socialism. For the officers and soldiers of the Imperial and Royal Army, the collapse of the old multinational empire placed a question mark over all their beliefs and careers. Today, the Habsburg army is no more. The last person to have served in its forces died in Lemberg aged well over 100 in 2003. But in literature, art and music something of its memory lives on.
Keywords: Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian army, Emperor Charles, monarchy, Habsburg Kaiser, nationalism, socialism
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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
