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Title: In the World War

Author: Count Ottokar Czernin

Release Date: April 12, 2006 [EBook #18160]

Language: English

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IN THE WORLD WAR

BY COUNT OTTOKAR CZERNIN

_WITH FOUR PLATES_

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne

Copyright in Great Britain.

PREFACE

It is impossible in a small volume to write the history of the World
War in even a partially exhaustive manner. Nor is that the object of
this book.

Rather than to deal with generalities, its purpose is to describe
separate events of which I had intimate knowledge, and individuals
with whom I came into close contact and could, therefore, observe
closely; in fact, to furnish a series of snapshots of the great drama.

By this means the following pages may possibly present a conception of
the war as a whole, which may, nevertheless, differ in many respects
from the hitherto recorded, and possibly faulty, history of the war.

Everyone regards people and events from his own point of view; it is
inevitable. In my book, I speak of men with whom I was in clos