Richard Bassett was staff correspondent for the London Times in Vienna, Rome, and Warsaw during the closing decade of the Cold War. He lives in London.
“John Keegan, perhaps the greatest British military historian of
recent years, felt that the most important book that remained
unwritten was a history of the Austrian army. Richard Bassett has
now successfully filled the gap, and few could be better qualified
to do so.”—John Jolliffe, The Spectator
*Spectator*
‘[Bassett] sets out 'to explore whether the Habsburgs’ army’s
reputation for inefficiency, incompetence, general unreliability,
and even cruelty, is at all justified.' Calling to his aid an
impressively broad array of sources, he demonstrates with engaging
verve that it is not.’—Adam Zamoyski, Literary Review
*Literary Review*
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