"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 ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

"The treaties of Versailles, St. Germain, and Trianon have remained intact only through post-war loans extended to the countries of Eastern and Central Europe by the United States and Great Britain," ...

Austria-Hungary entered World War I as a great power — and ended it in ruins. This episode explains why: ethnic divisions, ...

(Reuters) - Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, the eldest son of the last Austrian emperor, died at his home in Germany on Monday. Here are some facts about Otto and his family: * Archduke Otto von Habsburg, ...

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 ...

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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 ...