The Kaiser And His Times

Author : Michael Balfour
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571303779

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The Kaiser and His Times by Michael Balfour Pdf

What were the consequences for Germany, and the world, that William II was Kaiser at the onset of the 'Great War'? In The Kaiser and His Times (first published in 1964), Michael Balfour analyzes the social, constitutional, and economic forces at work in imperial Germany, and sets the complex and disputed character of the Kaiser, who occupied such a central position in the three decades before 1918, in the context of his family background and the history of Germany. '[Balfour] has borne in mind the Kaiser's own request to the head of his military Secretariat - 'Not dry reports only, please, but now and then a funny story.' The circumstances that allowed to Kaiser to live as if 'The greater part of his life... was illusion' would make comic reading if the results had not been so tragic...' Kirkus Review

Author : Alan Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015001427726

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The Kaiser by Alan Palmer Pdf

"Wilhelm II or William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht; English: Frederick William Victor Albert) (27 January 1859? 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. He was a grandson of the British Queen Victoria and related to many monarchs and princes of Europe. Crowned in 1888, he dismissed the Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, in 1890 and launched Germany on a bellicose "New Course" in foreign affairs that culminated in his support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led to World War I. Bombastic and impetuous, he sometimes made tactless pronouncements on sensitive topics without consulting his ministers, culminating in a disastrous Daily Telegraph interview that cost him most of his power in 1908. His generals dictated policy during World War I with little regard for the civilian government. An ineffective war leader, he lost the support of the army, abdicated in November 1918, and fled to exile in the Netherlands."--Wikipedia.

Author : John C. G. Röhl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521565049

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The Kaiser and His Court by John C. G. Röhl Pdf

A personal and political analysis of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II using new archival sources.

Author : John C. G. Röhl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107072251

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Kaiser Wilhelm II by John C. G. Röhl Pdf

This is a concise edition of John Röhl's prize-winning three-volume biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. It sheds new light on the Kaiser's troubled youth, his involvement in social and political scandals, and his role in foreign policy decisions that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

Author : Steve Berry
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250140357

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The Kaiser's Web by Steve Berry Pdf

In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, a secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history — it could impact Germany's upcoming national elections and forever alter the political landscape of Europe. Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day — April 30, 1945 — and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the Fürherbunker. Did Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun die there? Did Martin Bormann, Hitler’s close confidant, manage to escape? And, even more important, where did billions in Nazi wealth disappear to in the waning days of World War II? The answers to these questions will determine who becomes the next Chancellor of Germany. From the mysterious Chilean lake district, to the dangerous mesas of South Africa, and finally into the secret vaults of Switzerland, former-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone discovers the truth about the fates of Hitler, Braun, and Bormann. Revelations that could not only transform Europe, but finally expose a mystery known as the Kaiser’s web.

Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752499284

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Kaiser Wilhelm II by John Van der Kiste Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker and that of the English liberal gentleman.

Author : Alan Judd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501144097

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The Kaiser's Last Kiss by Alan Judd Pdf

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers"--Copyright page.

Author : Lamar Cecil
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807822833

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Wilhelm II: Emperor and exile, 1900-1941 by Lamar Cecil Pdf

Traces the early years in the life of Wilhelm II, German emperor before the First World War, focusing on his genealogy, education, and service as an officer in the Prussian Army

Author : Menachem Kaiser
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328506467

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Plunder by Menachem Kaiser Pdf

A New York Times Critics’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance—material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.

Author : Miranda Carter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400079124

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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter Pdf

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world. Through brilliant and often darkly comic portraits of these men and their lives, their foibles and obsessions, Miranda Carter delivers the tragicomic story of Europe’s early twentieth-century aristocracy, a solipsistic world preposterously out of kilter with its times.

Author : Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036965338

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The Last Kaiser by Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle Pdf

Author : William II (German Emperor)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Germany
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019645902

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The Kaiser's Memoirs, Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 1888-1918 by William II (German Emperor) Pdf

Author : Catrine Clay
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473612518

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King, Kaiser, Tsar by Catrine Clay Pdf

During the last days of July 1914 telegrams flew between the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar. George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, known in the family as Georgie, Willy and Nicky, were cousins. Between them they ruled over half the world. They had been friends since childhood. But by July 1914 the Trade Union of Kings was falling apart. Each was blaming the other for the impending disaster of the First World War. 'Have I gone mad ' Nicky asked his wife Alix in St Petersburg, showing her another telegram from Willy. 'What on earth does William mean pretending that it still depends on me whether war is averted or not!' Behind the friendliness of family gatherings lurked family quarrels, which were often played out in public. Drawing widely on previously unpublished documents, this is the extraordinary story of their overlapping lives, conducted in palaces of unimaginable opulence, surrounded by flattery and political intrigue. And through it runs the question: to what extent were the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar responsible for the outbreak of the war, and, as it turned out, for the end of autocratic monarchy

Author : Annika Mombauer,Wilhelm Deist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139440608

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The Kaiser by Annika Mombauer,Wilhelm Deist Pdf

This collection of innovative essays examining the role of Wilhelm II in Imperial Germany was first published in 2003, particularly on the later years of the monarch's reign. The essays highlight the Kaiser's relationship with statesmen and rulers; his role in international relations; the erosion of his power during the First World War; and his ultimate downfall in 1918. The book demonstrates the extent to which Wilhelm II was able to exercise 'personal rule', largely unopposed by the responsible government, and supported in his decision-making by his influential entourage. The essays are based on thorough and far-reaching research and on a wide range of archival sources. Written to honour the innovative work of John Röhl, Wilhelm II's most famous biographer, on his sixty-fifth birthday, the essays within this volume will continue to provide an exciting evaluation of the role and importance of this controversial monarch.

Author : Richard Jay Hutto
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476628080

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The Kaiser's Confidante by Richard Jay Hutto Pdf

New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a princess in her own right after his death. An active philanthropist to Protestant causes, she then married Count Alfred von Waldersee whose close ties to the Prussian court made her an intimate friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a mentor and valued friend to his young wife. Although she preferred to remain in the background, Mary's influence caused intense jealousy by those at court who resented her friendship with the kaiser and kaiserin. This biography chronicles the remarkable life of an American woman whose wealth and influence enabled her to rise to power in the Prussian royal court.