The night was silent and pitch-black, but Austro-Hungarian sentinels were still watchful. The Russians lay no more than 100 meters ahead, and their enemies knew they were up to something.

Nevertheless, the army – or armies -- did fight well at times, notably on the Italian Front, and to hold together well until the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916, after which it began to ...

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 ...

The shocking, black-and-white photograph, taken on the edge of a Serbian village just days after it was invaded by the massed forces of the Austro-Hungarian army in the late summer of 1914 ...

Paolo Morisi, author of a number of books in modern Italian military history, gives us a look at the origins and development of Italian and Austro-Hungarian special assault troops during the First ...

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 ...