Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Concise Life

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Cambridge University Press, 21 авг. 2014 г. - Всего страниц: 240
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 biography of the Kaiser and his reign. The book sheds new light on Wilhelm's troubled youth, his involvement in social and political scandals, and his growing thirst for glory, which, combined with his overwhelming nationalism and passion for the navy provided the impetus for a breathtaking long-term goal: the transformation of the German Reich into one of the foremost powers in the world. The volume examines the crucial role played by Wilhelm as Germany's Supreme War Lord in the policies that led to war in 1914. It concludes by describing the rabid anti-Semitism he developed in exile and his efforts to persuade Hitler to restore him to the throne.
 

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The soul murder of an heir to the throne
3
Ambivalent motherhood
10
The conflict between the Prince of Prussia
22
Divine right without end
41
The establishment of the Kaisers personal monarchy
53
the corrupt Bülow system
63
Weltmachtpolitik
73
The RussoJapanese War and the meeting of
83
The leap of the Panther to Agadir 1911
125
the Haldane Mission 1912
132
the war council of 8 December 1912
139
The Kaiser in the July crisis of 1914
149
The Kaisers war aims
167
the collapse of the Hohenzollern monarchy
174
A new life in Amerongen and Doorn
181
The Kaiser and Hitler
188

The intensification of the AngloGerman conflict
93
The Eulenburg affair 19061909
103
the Daily Telegraph crisis
110
the Chancellor
116

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John C. G. Röhl is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sussex. His many previous publications include The Kaiser and his Court (1994) which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize as well as the two previous volumes of his biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II - Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859–1888 (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Wilhelm II: The Kaiser's Personal Monarchy, 1888–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), which have won the Einhard Prize for the biography of a major European figure in 2012.

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