The Kaiser and his Court
Subtitle: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany
Contributors: Terence F. Cole (Translator)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780521565042
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; History; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; History / Europe / General; History / Germany; William II. German Emperor, 1859-1941
First sentence: At the outbreak of war in 1914, a Prussian officer in Brazil wrote to a friend in Germany that people were at least attributing to Kaiser Wilhelm II 'more greatness than Bismarck and Moltke put together, a higher destiny than Napoleon I', seeing in him the Weltgestalter - the 'shaper of the world'.