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

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was only the trigger — the real causes ran deeper. Austria-Hungary saw a chance ...

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 ...

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that killed millions and set the continent of Europe on the path to further calamity two decades later. But it didn’t come o ...

[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 ...

Vienna, Austria, December 1956: A young boy whose family fled Hungary in the wake of a brutal Soviet response to a popular uprising sits down for a meal at a Vienna refugee center. Among those helping ...

The Empress hit Netflix last week, and it's already become the new obsession to satisfy Bridgerton and The Crown fans' thirst for an epic historical drama. The German show is based on a true story ...