Berlin Court

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The work here presented is issued under an assumed name, in accordance with the expressed wish of the distinguished author. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to make public the bulk of the information which appears in its pages, a remark which applies particularly to the Diary of the episodes that led up to the war.<br><br>The high personage, through whom this remarkable document came into our possession, declares that the intimacy which existed between the author and his Imperial master was so long-standing and close as to render it both logical and legitimate to believe all the details given in the Diary.<br><br>In order to preserve its intensely human note the Diary has been retained in the original first-person style in which it was written.