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This is John Batcheler, conversation with the author of Professor Nick Lloyd, his new book The Eastern Front.

This continues his history of the Great War 1914 to 1918. The commander of the Austrian forces at the beginning of the war

is famous for failure. His name, General Franz Conrad von Hutzendorf.

Nick explains here the failure of the Austrian army and why.

And why Conrad kept it going for four years.

The massacres, the Great War, the Eastern Front,

1914, 1918, Nick Lloyd, more of this later.

I mean, you know, to a certain degree it isn't his fault.

I think like many commands at the time, he did believe in the offensive spirit

in the reports of grasping the initiative in war and in conducting decisive. of time. It's huge arguments over budgets. They don't have enough artillery. The artillery they do have is very

light, weak, fragile. Often they've got bronze barrels because of underfunding. And no, those often warp or break entirely after intensive firing,

so they're not reliable. And so Austria is very light in terms of the artillery it's going to need.

It has, you know, it has some light artillery, but it is probably one of the lighter armed armies of the war.

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