A handful of bellicose political and military decision-makers in Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia caused WW1. Relatively common before 1914, assassinations of royal figures did not normally ...

Both were killed. British soldiers using a Vickers machine gun in the trenches during WW1. Following the assassination, Austria-Hungary approached Germany to see if they would support a war ...

In April images emerged showing children in Turkish army uniforms re-enacting the World War One Battle of Gallipoli. The Turkish president's office called Austria's move "Islamophobic, racist and ...

The Freedom Party has secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-Second World War Austria – ...

The beginning of World War 1 was a nightmare of alliances. Three empires - Britain, Russia, and Austria-Hungary - were trying ...

Geoffrey Wawro describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Bohemia, and the wretched collapse of the Austrian army in July 1866. Blending military and social history, he describes the panic ...

The victory of the Balkan League over the Ottoman Empire in the First Balkan War put Serbia on a collision course with Austria-Hungary over the issue of Serbian access to the sea through (formerly ...