The author puts an end to the image of the Austrians as eternal losers. Only ignorance of their own military history could have led to this misconception. Of some 7,000 battles fought by imperial troops in more than 400 years, 65 percent were won, historians knew even on the eve of the First World War. And indeed: without capable military officers and generals, Austria could hardly have held its own against the Turks and become the supreme power in the German Empire. Helmut Neuhold writes a new military history of Austria, one that has been a success story for a long time. Not only the great warlords known to almost everyone, such as Wallenstein, Prince Eugene, Andreas Hofer or Radetzky, are dealt with, but also military leaders less known today and their achievements, which are perhaps still remembered by one or the other street name.
