Monday was a national holiday here in traditionally Catholic Austria: the Feast of the Assumption, which marks the death and ascension into heaven of the Virgin Mary. We Orthodox Christians observe ...

General David Petraeus may currently be viewed by many as the military genius who turned around the war in Iraq (and possibly in Afghanistan as well), but will history remember him? Before you answer ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Radetzky March is an important novel, since it singularly conveys the constrained spirit that some leaders of the Great Powers in Europe must have experienced ...

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 ...