Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about books, economics, foreign policy, and history. After the Great War had ended, an Austrian diplomat and a German ...

Austria Hungary entered the war as a great power but was already weak from the inside. This episode follows the divisions, ...

Key point: The Radetzky March is worth a read and is full os history. Joseph Roth’s magnum opus, The Radetzky March, is perhaps one of the greatest novels that emerged out of the carnage of the First ...

University of London historian Watson (Enduring the Great War) makes a major contribution to the ever-growing historiography of WWI with this comprehensive analysis of the war efforts of the primary ...

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 ...

Joseph Roth’s magnum opus, The Radetzky March, portrays the decline and death of an empire that has outlived its time by telling the story of the ill-omened Trotta family, whose sad end—like in a ...