Fall of the Double Eagle

John R. Schindler is a strategist, military historian, and security consultant whose work focuses on strategy, intelligence, and terrorism. Previously he was an intelligence analyst with the National Security Agency and a professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War and Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad and the coauthor of The Terrorist Perspectives Project: Strategic and Operational Views of Al-Qaida and Associated Movements.

"[A] must-read for students of history and historians alike."-Washington Book Review "The Fall of the Double Eagle is an excellent examination of one of the most important battles of World War I."-John Fahey, Military Review "Fall of the Double Eagle can be read and appreciated by interested general readers as well as all students and scholars of the Great War."-Jesse Kauffman, Michigan War Studies Review “Among the recent books on the Great War’s long-neglected Eastern Front, this stands with the best. . . . Schindler’s comprehensive research and measured judgment combine in an admirably balanced account of the disaster that foreshadowed the end of the Habsburg Empire.”-Dennis Showalter, professor of history at Colorado College and author of Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare    “With a great deal of detail and even greater empathy, Schindler brings both the heroism and blunders of the Dual Monarchy’s doomed war effort to life. Both amateur World War I enthusiasts and specialists are forever in his debt for restoring the battle of Galicia to its proper place.”-Avi Woolf, English editor of MIDA.org.il and blogger for the Times of Israel“Schindler has written a most exciting account not just of the Galician campaign of 1914 but of its significance for the collapse of Austria-Hungary during the First World War. . . . The reader comes away from this book astonished by the bravery of millions of men of a dozen nationalities, all betrayed by an ignorance of strategy, tactics, and logistics at the very top of the imperial army.”-Alan Sked, professor of international history at the London School of Economics and author of Radetzky: Imperial Victor and Military Genius    “This excellent account of Austria-Hungary’s fateful role at the outset of the First World War highlights the insoluble dilemma of a two-front war against Serbia and Russia. . . . John Schindler has done a superb job in reconstructing one of the least known military debacles of a century ago.”-GyÖrgy SchÖpflin, member of the European Parliament for Hungary and author of Politics, Illusions, Fallacies

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. AEIOU2. The Most Powerful Pillar3. War Plans4. July Crisis5. Disaster on the Drina6. To Warsaw!7. Meeting the Steamroller8. Lemberg–Rawa Ruska9. From Defeat to Catastrophe10. AftermathsNotesBibliographyIndex