Skulls of people killed by Bulgarian forces in WWI near the Serbian town of Leskovac. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Album des Crimes Bulgares: annexes aux documents relatifs aux violations des ...

One way or another, Serbia's losses in the Great War were greater, proportionately, than any other nation: 62.5 per cent of Serbian males aged between 15 and 55 died between 1914 and 1918.

Historians say Serbia lost nearly 1.25 million soldiers and civilians in World War I, or 28 percent of the prewar population. About 62 percent of the dead were men aged 18-55.

July 2, 1914: Austrians Decide on War with Serbia The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, shocked Europe—but few, if any, guessed it would ...

The Bodrog, a heavily armored vessel launched in 1904 and equipped with the most advanced naval technology of the time, shelled the Serbian capital just before midnight on July 28, 1914.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 134th installment in the series. July 27-28, 1914: Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia ...