Sacrifice and Rebirth The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War [Hardcover]

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the books twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This splintered war memory, where some posed as victors and some as losers, does much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.

Mark Cornwallis Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton. He is author ofThe Undermining of Austria-Hungary. The Battle for Hearts and Minds(2000) andThe Devils Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha(2012).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Map of Ex-Habsburg Europe in the Interwar Period

Introduction:A Conflicted and Divided Habsburg Memory
Mark Cornwall

PART I: SACRIFICE AND THE VANQUISHED

Chapter 1.Competing Interpretations of Sacrifice in the Postwar Austrian Republic
Catherine Edgecombe and Maureen Healy

Chapter 2.War in Peace: Remobilization and National Rebirth in Austria and Hungary
Robert Gerwarth

Chapter 3.Apocalypse and the Quest for a Sudeten German M?nnerbund in Czechoslovakia
Mark Cornwall

Chapter 4.The Divided War Remembrance of Transylvanian Magyars
Franz Sz. Horv?th

PART II: SACRIFICE AND THE DISCOURSE OF VICTORY