Download or read book A Mad Catastrophe written by Geoffrey Wawro and published by Basic Civitas Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian charts the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, describing the cumulative effects of repression, cynicism and corruption along with ill-fated alliances with Constantinople and conflicts with the Serbs ahead of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. 25,000 first printing.