There were 53 million people in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the start of World War I. By the end, 1,200,000-1,494,200 of these men and women were dead or missing in military action; another 467,000 civilians had died of disease or malnutrition. If you want to get a sense of how

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With one eye laughing, Austrians went off to war in 1914 with flowers and tinsel in their hats. They quickly realized they would need helmets. What’s more, they started it. In a tinder keg of aggression – with Wilhelm II of Germany and Great Britain building up their naval fleets

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