by Maurice Paléologue
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.
An Ambassador's Memoirs by Maurice Paléologue (Last French Ambassador to the Russian Court) Vol. III (August 19, 1916 - May 17, 1917) Translated by F.A. Holt, O.B.E. With a frontispiece photograph of Tsar Nicholas II shoveling snow at Tsarskoie-Selo
Publisher: George H. Doran Company,
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