num_pages: 288
description: Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the key figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe: King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to the collapse of Germany in 1918 and a crucial player in the events that led to the outbreak of World War I. Following Kaiser Wilhelm's political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court through the turbulent peacetime decades of the Wilhelmine era into global war and exile, the book presents a new interpretation of this controversial monarch and assesses the impact on Germany of his forty-year reign.
language: English
title: Kaiser Wilhelm II
titlecomplete: Kaiser Wilhelm II
characters: William II, German Emperor
genres: 20th Century, Biography, History, Politics, European History, World War I, Germany, War, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 294
series: Profiles in Power
publisher: Routledge