Emperor Franz-Joseph I of Austro-Hungary granted Engel and ... but the time for compensating Hungarian victims of World War II had passed: “Unless you are very rich, you cannot buy back your ...

Before WWII, WWI was called “The Great War” - indicating its immensity. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914 triggered the conflict. Austro-Hungary and ...

The mortar lobbed shells weighing 384 kilograms each and was later put to use by the Nazis in World War II. 3 Austro-Hungarian forces crossing the Bug River in 1915. The waterway forms part of ...

During World War II, more than 11 million soldiers served in the Army. Only one small unit could count among its ranks three European royals, sons of the last Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg emperor.

Otto von Habsburg only relinquished his claim to the fallen Austro-Hungarian empire in 1961 ... the Habsburg family went into exile. After World War II, Mr Habsburg became a champion of European ...

Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops clashed at altitudes up to 12,000 feet (3,600 meters) with temperatures as low as -22°F (-30°C) in the Guerra Bianca, or White War, named for its wintry theater.

At the time, late June 1914, the town, today part of Croatia, was a Serbian enclave nestled in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. That same week, Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, assassinated the ...

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, tours one of his territories; Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The empire – a mix of European nations with different ...