At that time, no one could have imagined this would be the last feudal Diet in Hungarian history. That is not to say its ...

Austria-Hungary entered the First World War as a major power but quickly unraveled under ethnic tensions, outdated leadership ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE tenth of September marked the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain by which the Hapsburg Monarchy was formally dissolved. At the time the world took little notice; ...

BERLIN — 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 ...

A “no step back” defense posture by Ukrainian forces risks worsening the relative attrition rate between Ukrainian and ...

[Unfortunately, through miscarriage in the mails, this paper is some six weeks overdue; but the Editors thought that Mr. Buxton’s great knowledge of the Near-Eastern question would still be useful to ...

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 ...

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