A few days ago--swear on a stack of bibles--I went to Washington Square Park to take pictures of the base of a monument that, until about ten years ago, held an Austrian cannon captured by the Italian ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was only the trigger — the real causes ran deeper. Austria-Hungary saw a chance to destroy Serbia; Serbia saw a chance to prove its strength. This episode ...

Royal cousins Wilhelm II and King George V went to war As nations gear up to mark 100 years since the start of World War One, academic argument still rages over which country was to blame for the ...

How early blunders in Serbia and Galicia set the stage for a grinding, resource-draining war the Empire couldn’t win.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Glock didn’t try to invent a pistol that would take over the world, just win a contract for the Austrian army. The rest of the world simply decided it wanted what he ...