Making five centuries of Habsburg history fun seems like a tall order, but Winder pulls it off. He entertains because he is entertained. His sprawling history of a dynastic empire that began in the ...

Part of my summer holiday was spent driving from Chernivtsi to Riva del Garda. The former, still better known in English by its old German name of Czernowitz, is a busy town in western Ukraine; the ...

On Nov. 1, 1921, the last Habsburg emperor of Austria-Hungary, Charles I, left Vienna for good. His empire, the second-largest state in Europe, had already disintegrated at the end of the First World ...

A century after its collapse, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is still often portrayed as a backwater of Europe, doomed to be torn apart by fiery nationalists. This view is contested in The Habsburg ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen is now Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican (Hungary Embassy) When Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen was at ...

The emperor Rudolph II as the ancient Roman god Vertumnus, by the court artist Arcimboldo Credit: Photo: Image Asset Management Ltd/Alamy What does the phrase “Austria-Hungary” conjure up in your mind ...