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 ...

The empire entered the war as a great power but was weak from the inside. Ethnic divisions, outdated leadership, and growing ...

Kremlin propagandists have suggested on state TV that Russian authorities create a new empire in Europe. The idea was floated by Vladimir Solovyov, one of the most well-known figures in Kremlin-backed ...

As we all know, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914, and set off a series of events that led to World War I.<P>What is often not addressed, however, is 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 ...

The Habichtsburg (“Hawk’s Castle”) stood anciently upon a bluff near the confluence of the Rhine and Aar. From it the later Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago.

"My strongest experience was the War and the destruction of my fatherland, the only one I ever had, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary." The fatalism of the protagonists, the living dead, and their ...