The Great War’s Shifting Battlefields When World War I erupted in 1914, the conflict quickly devolved into a brutal stalemate […]
The Powder Keg of Empires: Ottoman Entry into the Great War The Ottoman Empire’s involvement in World War I represents […]
The Powder Keg of Empires: Ottoman Entry into the Great War The Ottoman Empire’s involvement in World War I represents […]
The Illusions of a Short War Shattered As winter descended upon Europe in late 1914, the great powers found themselves […]
The Crucible of War and the Birth of “German Exceptionalism” When Europe plunged into war in August 1914, German intellectuals […]
The Crucible of War and the Birth of “German Exceptionalism” When Europe plunged into war in August 1914, German intellectuals […]
The Psychology of Sacrifice in a Nation Under Siege When Germany entered World War I in 1914, it faced a […]
The Gathering Storm: Europe’s Path to War in 1914 As the summer of 1914 unfolded, Europe stood at the brink […]
The Precarious Position of the Dual Monarchy When World War I erupted in 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire faced a strategic […]
The Origins of Russia’s Eastern Front Strategy In the early 1880s, the Russian General Staff began formulating defensive war plans […]
A Nation on the Brink: The July Crisis Reaches Its Climax On Saturday, August 1, 1914, Berlin awoke to a […]
The Strategic Blueprint That Shaped a War In the early 20th century, German military strategists developed a daring operational plan […]
The Shifting Sands of German Foreign Policy In the years leading up to World War I, Germany’s approach to Balkan […]
The Powder Keg of Europe: Balkan Tensions Before 1914 The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, did […]
The Powder Keg of Europe: Balkan Tensions Before 1914 Long before Gavrilo Princip fired his fatal shots in Sarajevo, the […]
The Unlikely Conquistadora: Catalina de Erauso’s Defiant Journey In 1603, a young Basque woman named Catalina de Erauso disguised herself […]
The Puzzle of Spanish Success In the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors achieved what seemed impossible: small bands of adventurers overthrew […]
Introduction: The Unrewarded Veterans of Empire The aging conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo poured his heart into a letter to […]
The Lure of New Worlds and the Seeds of Conquest When Christopher Columbus made landfall in the Caribbean in 1492, […]
A Lawyer’s Ambition in the Age of Conquest In 1536, as Hernán Cortés solidified Spanish control over Mexico and Francisco […]
The Gathering Storm: Europe in the Aftermath of World War I When the Allied statesmen convened in Paris in January […]
The Precarious Balance of Early 1918 As 1918 dawned, the Allied and Central Powers found themselves locked in a deadly […]
