Read Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War Online
Authors: Max Hastings
Tags: #Ebook Club, #Chart, #Special
STATESMEN
Poincaré and the Tsar during the July 1914 French state visit to St Petersburg.
STATESMEN
Asquith and Lloyd George at The Wharf, the prime minister’s Berkshire country home.
STATESMEN
Clockwise from bottom left:
Pasic, Berchtold, Sazonov, Grey, Churchill, Bethmann Hollweg.
Every army, including that of the Tsar, solicited divine assistance before marching.
WARLORDS
Left, clockwise from left:
Moltke, Ludendorff, Hindenburg, Kitchener, Lanrezac.
Right, clockwise from left:
Conrad, Joffre, French, Haig, Falkenhayn, Franchet d’Espèrey.
Russians in Galicia.
SERBIA
Serbian troops advance.
SERBIA
Serbian C-in-C Putnik.
SERBIA
Potiorek, Austrian field commander.
SERBIA
Corporal Egon Kisch and comrade.
Austrian troops in Serbia conduct punitive mass executions of civilians, a ritual often photographed and publicised to discourage
francs-tireurs
.
An Austrian siege piece of the type used to destroy the Liège forts.
Kluck, commanding the German First Army.