Read a single page summary of the origins of the First World War
- the tangled secret alliances, the royal feuds, the
personalities and the seemingly inevitable series of events in
June and July 1914 which culminated in the oubreak of
hostilities spanning four years. Assassin's Target: Archduke
Franz Ferdinand Browse a collection of some 200 contemporary
photographs of the monarchs, crown princes and other assorted
royalty who ruled Europe during World War One, including Kaiser
Wilhelm of Germany, British King George V and Emperor Franz
Josef of Austria-Hungary. Biographical Study - Kaiser Wilhelm II
Read a collection of telegrams exchanged between German Kaiser
Wilhelm II and Russian Tsar Nicholas II in the four days leading
up to war, from 29 July to 1 August 1914, in which each seeks to
persuade the other to cede their diplomatic position. The Doomed
Tsar - Nicholas II of Russia Read how Adolf Hitler's experience
in the German infantry during the Great War helped shape his
subsequent character, from initia