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Jun 28, 2019 · There was just one problem: The accused, Wilhelm II of Germany, couldn’t testify. The accused had been dead for 75 years. It could have been the trial of the century—if it had been conducted a ...
Christopher Clark counters John Röhl’s thesis that Wilhelm II was bent on war and had the authority to bring it about with the argument that the Kaiser was a scatterbrain who was not the decision-maker on most foreign and defence policy issues, including the lead-up to the First World War ( LRB, 23 April ). Clark is right that Röhl has not ...
Jul 28, 2014 · John C.G. Röhl. Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859–1941) is one of the most fascinating figures in European history, ruling Imperial Germany from his accession in 1888 to his enforced abdication in 1918 at the end of the First World War. In one slim volume, John Röhl offers readers a concise and accessible survey of his monumental three-volume ...
Paperback – Illustrated, Aug. 21 2014. Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859–1941) is one of the most fascinating figures in European history, ruling Imperial Germany from his accession in 1888 to his enforced abdication in 1918 at the end of the First World War. In one slim volume, John Röhl offers readers a concise and accessible survey of his ...
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Kaiser Wilhelm II, a fundamentally decent but inconsistent and misunderstood figure according to historian Basil Liddel Hart, is one of the famous figures that traveled to Istanbul, lavishly received by Ottoman ruler Abdülhamid II. The subject of the last piece in this series was the Hadrian, who is the third of the so-called “Five Good ...
Apr 14, 2022 · Kaiser Wilhelm II was king of Prussia and German emperor from June 1888 to November 1918. Wilhelm was emperor at the beginning of World War I and was deposed when Germany was defeated. He was the eldest child of Emperor Frederick III and Vicky, the eldest child of Britain's Queen Victoria. Jump to:
In the latter part of the 19th century, Germany’s young Kaiser, Wilhelm II, was anxious to play Weltpolitik (global politics) and expand his country’s influence beyond the borders of Europe, where Germany was already an acknowledged power player. Inadvertently, the United States was proving to be an irritating obstacle to Wilhelm’s goals.
