THIS volume, the last of the series prepared by Col. Addison to illustrate the manifold activities of the corps of Royal Engineers during the recent European War, covers a wide range of activities. It ...

"First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books"--Title page verso. pt. I. Roads to Sarajevo. I. Serbian ghosts : Murder in Belgrade ; 'Irresponsible elements' ; ...

During the years leading up to 1914, Europe’s upper classes, the landowning aristocracy and the industrial-financial bourgeoisie, had lived through years of almost intolerable tension. Obsessed by the ...

Flight, as a journal, had been in publication for only five years when the emerging industry of 'aerial locomotion' it covered weekly was thrust into proving its value as an instrument of warfare.

In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, ...

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 ...

"Changing Times: Egon Schiele's Last Years, 1914-1918" contains some 130 works from the Austrian artist. Leni Deinhardstein / Leopold Museum “We are living in the most violent time that the world has ...