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Language: English | Category: History & Biography | Audio Book: Not Available
He was, in the minds of many, the man responsible for the catastrophe that engulfed Europe in 1914.
Kaiser Wilhelm II, the cold, brutal ruler who represented the pride and swagger of Imperial Germany, and must take the bulk of the responsibility for the First World War.
But who was the real man behind the image?
Although his caricature is firmly etched on the mind, the Kaiser remains an elusive figure. Alan Palmer has set out to tell the story of the extraordinary life of this temperamentally insecure man who was outwardly so full of swagger and bombast -the epitome of the new, self-confident Germany.
Born in a Prussia that was the supreme militaristic society of the post-Napoleonic era and accustomed from his earliest days to all the trappings and sounds of soldiery, Wilhelm was obsessed through-out his adolescence by the need to appear every inch a soldier.
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Palmer, Alan - Bismarck -
Language: English, History & Biography - Format: ePub
At the peak of his eminence, Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who created a unified Germany and who dominated world politics in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, was regarded as a legend rather than an (More) |
Palmer, Alan - The Kaiser: War Lord Of The Second Reich -
Language: English, History & Biography - Format: ePub
He was, in the minds of many, the man responsible for the catastrophe that engulfed Europe in 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the cold, brutal ruler who represented the pride and swagger of Imperial Germany, and must take the bulk of the (More) |