Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (100 page)

STATESMEN

Poincaré and the Tsar during the July 1914 French state visit to St Petersburg.

STATESMEN

Asquith and Lloyd George at The Wharf, the prime minister’s Berkshire country home.

STATESMEN

Clockwise from bottom left:
Pasic, Berchtold, Sazonov, Grey, Churchill, Bethmann Hollweg.

Every army, including that of the Tsar, solicited divine assistance before marching.

WARLORDS

Left, clockwise from left:
Moltke, Ludendorff, Hindenburg, Kitchener, Lanrezac.

Right, clockwise from left:
Conrad, Joffre, French, Haig, Falkenhayn, Franchet d’Espèrey.

Russians in Galicia.

SERBIA

Serbian troops advance.

SERBIA

Serbian C-in-C Putnik.

SERBIA

Potiorek, Austrian field commander.

SERBIA

Corporal Egon Kisch and comrade.

Austrian troops in Serbia conduct punitive mass executions of civilians, a ritual often photographed and publicised to discourage
francs-tireurs
.

An Austrian siege piece of the type used to destroy the Liège forts.

Kluck, commanding the German First Army.