The first part of the planned trilogy addresses the relationship between politics, diplomacy and the military on the eve of the First World War. As "case studies" it analyses the relations between Italy and Austria-Hungary and reasons that brought the two former allies to the armed conflict in 1915. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the strategic thinking prior to the assassination in Sarajevo; the very false ideas about the coming conflict ultimately led to the position warfare.
COBISS.SI-ID: 248671744
The biographical study is the first detailed published treatise on the Austro-Hungarian chief-of-general staff, Field Marshal Blasius Schemua. On the eve of the Great War some aspects of his strategic thinking appeared remarkable, since he had predicted a long and destructive future war. However, his actions in the role of a commanding officer on the Austro-Hungarian battlefield in the north east failed to bring him succes
COBISS.SI-ID: 30015021
The study offers a pioneering overview of life and work of Danilo Gregorič who played an important political and diplomatic role in the last years of the Kingdom Yugoslavia. The prime minister Dragiša J. Cvetković entrusted him the establishment of unofficial channels between the German foreign ministry and the decisive factors in Belgrade. Danilo Gregorič was also the author of affirmative studies on the German and Italian economies in the Nazi and Fascist era.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30013485
The biographical study is the first expanded and critical presentation of the life and work of Lambert Ehrlich, whose thought decisively marked the Catholic pole in Slovenian public life in the interwar period. Along with the analysis of political activity of Lambert Ehrlich, who was one of the first promoters of Slovenian state independence, the study highlights his scientific and theological (pastoral and organisational) work.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30012461
The biographical study is a critical overview of life and work of the hitherto most cited Slovenian historian, DDr Ivan Slokar, who became worldly renowned for his research on the beginnings of industrialization in the Habsburg Monarchy. DDr Slokar also put an imprint on the Slovenian banking in the interwar period; as a benefactor he initiated the publishing of the Slovenian Biographical Lexicon. He was equally important as an inventor (helicopter).
COBISS.SI-ID: 30015277