CHAPTER 1: TO ARMS

1 Sidney Fay, The Origins of the World War (2 vols, New York, 1934), vol. 2, p. 31.

2 Imanuel Geiss, July 1914 (London, 1967), p. 64.

3 Stanoje Stanojevi, quoted in Samuel Williamson and Russel Van Wyk, July 1914 (Boston, 2003), p. 20.

4 Kurt Peball, Conrad von Hötzendorf. Private Aufzeichnungen (Vienna, 1977), p. 148.

5 Gerhard Ritter, The Sword and the Sceptre: the problem of militarism in Germany (4 vols, London, 1971-73), vol. 2, p. 229.

6 Williamson and Van Wyk, July 1914, p. 57.

7 Ibid., p. 102.

8 Fay, vol. 2, p. 204.

9 Geiss, July 1914, p. 78.

10 Keith Wilson (ed.), The Rasp of War: The Letters of H. A. Gwynne to the Countess Bathurst (London, 1988), p. 15.

11 Williamson and Van Wyk, July 1914, p. 123.

12 Slavka Mihajlovic, Oblaci nad gradom 1914-1918 (Belgrade, 1955).

13 Josef Redlich, Schicksalsjahre Österreichs 1908-1919. Das politische Tagebuch Josef Redlichs, ed. Fritz Fellner (2 vols, Graz, 1953), vol. 1, p. 240.

14 Geiss, July 1914, p. 289.

15 Graydon A. Tunstall, Planning for War against Russia and Serbia: Austro-Hungarian and German Military Strategies, 1897-1914 (Boulder, CO, 1993), p. 221.

16 Rudolf Jerabek, Potiorek (Graz, 1991), p. 93.

17 R. A. Reiss, How Austria-Hungary Waged War in Serbia : Personal Investigations of a Neutral (Paris, 1915), p. 46.

18 Jerabek, Potiorek, p. 165.

19 John R. Schindler, ‘Disaster on the Drina: The Austro-Hungarian Army in Serbia, 1914’, War in History, vol. 9 (2002), p. 187.

20 A. A. Brusilov, A Soldier’s Note-book 1914-1918 (London, 1930), p. 96.

21 Manfred Rauchensteiner, Der Tod des Doppeladlers. Österreich-Ungarn und der Erste Weltkrieg (Graz, 1993), p. 136.