Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Radetzky March is an important novel, since it singularly conveys the constrained spirit that some leaders of the Great Powers in Europe must have experienced ...

Austria-Hungary was a powerful empire on paper, but beneath the surface it was a fragile union of rival nations held together by compromise and fear. Ethnic nationalism steadily undermined loyalty to ...

Joseph Roth’s magnum opus, The Radetzky March, is perhaps one of the greatest novels that emerged out of the carnage of the First World War describing the dying days of Habsburg rule in Central Europe ...

In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could ...

For the past decade, wines from the "New World" (basically everywhere outside Europe) have burst onto the imbibing scene and established a firm foothold. Turns out, though, that the Old World wasn't ...

BERLINBERLIN — Otto von Habsburg saw the crumbling of the empire his family had ruled for centuries and emerged from its ashes as a champion of a united and democratic Europe. The oldest son of ...

India may not be heading for the same fate as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but that doesn’t mean the example is flawed. Last week, Franz-Stefan Gady wrote an excellent article comparing India to the ...

A GOLDEN late-summer light filters through the windows of the Café Landtmann. Bow-tied waiters move among towering hot-house plants. Officials huddle around a table. They are fretting about ...