The author examines the social and ethnic origins of officers, their reasons for joining the army, their upbringing and training, their ideology, lifestyle and particular habits, their role in politics, culture and society, the development of the officer corps between 1848 and 1918, the officers' relationship with the civil authorities, their responsibility for the continuation and eventual collapse of the monarchy and, finally, their influence on the history of eastern Central Europe after 1918.
Group
Books (second-hand)
State
Second Hand
Author
Deák, I.
Title
Der K.(u.)K. Offizier 1848-1918
Details
2nd, improved edition. 28 bw and colour illustrations on plates. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 1995. 321 pp. Without dust jacket, title page of cover and an additional colour illus. pasted in at the beginning of the book.
