In June 1916, the editor-in-chief of the Nyugat, Ignotus, decided to organize his notes and portfolios about the war situation into a volume, as he puts it: The author of the following notes has selected in this book for the time being the lines from the first year of the war, which he feels are characteristic of that are true for days or further days.
So what exactly is this?, we might ask. A war chronicle, a book of secrets, a storehouse of unknown facts and connections, just local history or Bédekker? Maybe a little bit of each. Ignotus paints a European panorama of the first year of the conflagration, in which he speaks simultaneously of the Balkan national conflicts, the murder in Sarajevo, the tasteless fashion of the American continent, the decline of the Monarchy and the decadence of "parisienne" culture, city culture, warlords and grand political intentions.
He does not look for those responsible, but argues clearly, his insights and conclusions draw attention to unknown connections, when he provides unknown additions about the Romanian king, the Albanian aspirations, the Titanic, the Lusitania, the Tatras and the Lomnici peak, Clemenceau, who According to Ignotus, he is the worst person in the world.
The volume is the vision of an excellent mind about 1914 and 1915.