I recall reading in a book on WW1 that by 1917 nearly two-fifths of the KuK Army’s junior officers and NCOs were actually Germans seconded to them by Berlin. It also asserted that the Austro-Hungarian soldiers ought *better* under this leadership than under their KUK predecessors, presumably because they were more efficient.
I had supposed that the book concerned was Norman Stone’s *The Eastern Front*, but though it makes mention of this matter, I don’t think it is the right one. In particular I can’t find the word “Reichsdeutsch” anywhere, which I distinctly remember, as the book in question was where I first learned it.
Any thoughts on what book it might have been? Or have I just not re-read TEF carefully enough?
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