A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...
Austria-Hungary was a powerful empire on paper, but beneath the surface it was a fragile union of rival nations held together by compromise and fear. Ethnic nationalism steadily undermined loyalty to ...
The Steyr M1912 was never meant to be an automatic weapon. Yet during World War I, battlefield pressure led Austria-Hungary to convert it into one. This video explains how the M1912/16 became one of ...