The Kaiser and his Court
Subtitle: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany
Contributors: Terence F. Cole (Translator)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780521402231
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Germany; Germany - History; William; History - General History; II,; History: World; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Views on Jews; William II. German Emperor, 1859-1941; 1888-1918; Politics and government; 1859-1941; Biography; German Emperor,; Kings and rulers
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'.