Balder Ex-Libris

Author : De Manteyer Georges
Title : Austria's peace offer 1916-1917
Year : 1921

Link download : De_Manteyer_Georges_-_Austria_s_peace_offer.zip

Letter from Prince Sixte de Bourbon. M. Georges Clemenceau wished me last year to take up the cudgels in the quarrel which Count Czernin had so inconsiderately provoked. But I was bound by an oath of secrecy ; besides, I feared lest France, hard pressed as she was between the two final German offensives of March and May, might recoil from a full and true account — which M. Clemenceau himself had not had — of the offers made to her by Austria in 1917. These offers of a separate Peace, had it been possible for us to accept them, would have narrowed our vast battle front to its essential limits. ...