The Memoirs of Dimitri Dimancescu cover the first half of the 20th century. His accounts cover his military duty as a war-hero in World War-I (Romania), diplomatic career in Washington, London, Paris, and exile in Morocco. His life crossed the paths of that era's leading personalities: Queen Marie, Lt. Erwin Rommel, King Carol II, Winston Churchill, William Randolph Hearst, dancer Loie Fuller, actors John Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan, 'spymaster' Bruce Lockhart, the Berber Pacha El Glaoui, and many others.