Following the First World War three of the largest European Empires collapsed, with the German Empire being the last, after ...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 244. Illus., notes, biblio., index. $27.99 paper. ISBN: 1107420776 Naturally, this book is not as detailed as ...
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Germany before World War 1 | Kaiser Wilhelm II's reign (1890-1914) + Eisenstein's Bezhin Meadow (1937) | Soviet cinematography
After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...
Professor John Röhl, the historian, who has died aged 85, was born to a German father and English mother and endured a fractured early childhood in Germany and Hungary during the Second World War; ...
Two old men who played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the ...
Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II decided to “renounce the throne,” under increasing pressure from most of Germany’s political parties. Germany’s troops were in retreat across Europe. Prince Maximilian, the ...
While Joseph Epstein draws attention to the comically similar temperaments and personality quirks of two prominent world leaders (“The Curious Parallels Between Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II,” op-ed, ...
The other day, reading along in Ernst Pawel’s “The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl,” I had a Plutarchian moment. I refer of course to Plutarch (45-120), the Greek who wrote a series of ...
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