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 ...

In Montenegro, dozens of 19th century forts built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire have been either abandoned to the elements or sold to foreign investors with little to show in return. From a roadside ...

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 ...

Russian Czarism undoubtedly represents a cruder and more barbarian form of state organization than does the feebler absolutism of Austria-Hungary, which has been mitigated by the weakness of old age.

My grandmother told me that in Prague one day, when she was a child, she saw a man throwing coins onto the street and yet nobody was picking them up. Then her mother explained that those coins weren’t ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...

“The Czechs are getting alarmed by Italian influence in Austria. Jugoslavia is rattled. The prospect of an Austro-Hungarian monarchy is not fantastic. Prince von Starhemberg and his following are ...

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 ...

Key Point: What your history teacher in high school or college forgot to mention. After the first five months of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian forces, under the leadership, if that is the right ...

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