The story of a pivotal year in dramatic terms which unveil the interaction of all the forces at work: natural and supernatural - human, satanic and Divine. Written by Dr. H. Carroll, 1917 Red Banner White Mantle presents the story, of a pivotal year in dramatic terms which unveils the interaction of all the forces at work: natural and supernatural - human, satanic and Divine. For almost half a thousand years the Catholic empire had been in the hands of the Hapsburgs family, now weakened, it yet remains the only principle of unity for the jumbled peoples of the Balkans, the last thoroughly Catholic monarchy on earth.