Austria-Hungary entered World War I as a major empire and ended it in collapse. The video examines why its army performed so badly despite its size and history. It shows how battlefield defeats, weak ...

In his heyday the Emperor Franz Josef liked to do things on schedule. At 4:30 in the morning three times a week, he arose, put on a well-cut uniform and yards of braid, walked across the gardens of ...

Austria-Hungary entered World War I with a large empire and quickly found its army failing on multiple fronts. The video examines how poor leadership, ethnic division, weak logistics, and shortages ...

The southeastern Polish city of Przemyśl, with its elegant 19th century Habsburg-era train station, remains one of the principal gateways to war-torn Ukraine. I pass through it regularly on my way to ...