Faculty Publications & Research
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1-5-2012
Disciplines
European History | Military History
Abstract
By early 1915, the Habsburg Monarchy faced a self-inflicted strategic crisis of the first magnitude. Under thecommand of the ever fallible Conrad von Hötzendorf, successive Austrian offensives against the Serbs andthe Russians in 1914 had been outright failures. In both cases, Conrad had attempted to shift between frontswith insufficient resources and succeeded only in grinding the life out of the fragile, undermanned, andunderequipped Habsburg Army. As a result, the Russians were able to lay siege to the critical Austrian fortificationof Przemyśl, which guarded the great Hungarian Plain against Russian invasion. In reaction, Conradgathered forces to relieve Przemyśl with an offensive through the Carpathian Mountains immediatelyeast of the fortress. The campaign ultimately grew into three separate, unsuccessful offensives, culminatingwith the fall of the fortress.
Recommended Citation
Eysturlid, Lee. Review of Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915, Gaydon A. Tunstall. Michigan War Studies Review 2012, no. 2 (January 5, 2012). http://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/hss_pr/7/.