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 ...

As we enter the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War, many uncomfortable parallels with our own time spring to mind. In 1914 the superpower that dominated the world, controlling the ...

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In a recent Brookings Institution essay entitled “The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War,” historian Margaret Macmillan argues that there are strong and haunting parallels between today’s ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from European War 6: 1914 Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com Since January 2022, Microsoft has been trying to complete its $70 billion purchase of Activision ...

The lights of nineteenth-century liberalism that Lord Grey saw going out all over Europe on the night of August 3, 1914, dimmed and sputtered toward extinction during the years of furious war that ...

A European looking forward into 1914 could easily have imagined renewed fighting in the Balkans. The Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913 had been education enough. But for this local kindling to turn all of ...

A century ago this month, Europeans stood on the brink of a war so devastating that it forced historians to create a new category: “World War.” None of the leaders at the time could imagine the ...