by Count Ottokar Czernin
Zweibund — the Dual Alliance — Germany and Austria-Hungary united, were the core of the Central Powers, and here join hands. The bars of Germany's flag border the top left, and those of the Habsburg Austrian Empire and ruling house the bottom right.
In the World War by Count Ottokar Czernin, Former Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign AffairsCzernin sums up the fall of the Empire: 'We were bound to die. We were at liberty to choose the manner of our death, and we chose the most terrible.'
Publisher: Harper and Brothers, 1920
Copyright: 1920, by Harper & Brothers