`a solid first book ... In his superb study of the Austro-Hungarian officer corps, Istvan Deak warns against exaggerating the domestic crisis of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Deaks's chapters on regimental life brilliantly recreate the internal dynamics of an organization that included a broad spectum of life-styles" Dennis Showalter, European History Quarterly

`a solid first book ... In his superb study of the Austro-Hungarian officer corps, Istvan Deak warns against exaggerating the domestic crisis of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Deaks's chapters on regimental life brilliantly recreate the internal dynamics of an organization that included a broad spectum of life-styles" Dennis Showalter, European History Quarterly