599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6)

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Dominic gives a massive shout out to this book, saying 'so much of what follows is dependent upon it' when discussing the siege of Przemyśl, calling it a brilliant book that captures the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

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Referenced as the book in which Timothy Snyder calls the eastern borderlands of Poland and Ukraine 'Europe's bloodlands in the 20th century,' mentioned in the context of the devastation these regions experienced.

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Described as Nick Lloyd's new book on the Eastern Front, from which the opening passage about the Tyrolean Kaiser Jäger was quoted, and later quoted regarding the horrors of the Carpathian campaign.

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Max Hastings' book is cited for telling the story of a woman who fights her way into a train carriage with her three children during the evacuation of Przemyśl, only to see her youngest child left behind on the platform.

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Mentioned as containing amazing stories about the Italian front, including one about Austrians shouting down at advancing Italians to stop coming because they would all be killed.