WILHELM II by John C. G. Rohl, Sheila De Bellaigue (Trans), Roy Bridge (Trans) ( 9781107544192 )

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Title:

WILHELM II
INTO THE ABYSS OF WAR AND EXILE, 1900-1941

By:

John C. G. Rohl, Sheila De Bellaigue (Trans), Roy Bridge (Trans)

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 2000

Pages:

1570

Translated from:

German

Description:

Final volume in acclaimed biography of Wilhelm II exploring his role in the origins of the First World War.

Synopsis:

This final volume of John Rohl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World War. The book examines the Kaiser's part in the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the naval arms race with Britain and Germany's rivalry with the United States as well as in the crises over Morocco, Bosnia and Agadir. It also sheds new light on the public scandals which accompanied his reign from the allegations of homosexuality made against his intimate friends to the Daily Telegraph Affair. Above all, John Rohl scrutinises the mounting tension between Germany and Britain and the increasing pressure the Kaiser exerted on his Austro-Hungarian ally from 1912 onwards to resolve the Serbian problem. Following Germany's defeat and Wilhelm's enforced abdication, he charts the Kaiser's bitter experience of exile in Holland and his frustrated hopes that Hitler would restore him to the throne.

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71 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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