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Title: Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor by John Van Der Kiste ISBN: 0-7509-2736-4 Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The kaiser leading his country to ruin.
Comment: This is a short biography of Germany's Last Emperor, William II.
As stated previously, it is short and a summary of his life.
The story includes his own downfall, leading Germany to the
Weimar Republic and then Nazi Germany.
The book does its best work in describing William's early life,
and his frosty relations with his English mother and relatives.
This led to alienation from the English royalty and prevented
Germany from forming an alliance with Great Britain, and a more
liberalized regime in Germany.
The book describes William's views on Jews, French, Russia, and
Great Britain. This was not a positive side to his personality.
Also detailed is his relationship to his mother, wife, and various mistresses, with a possible homosexual relationship with
his best friend. The author does not go into detail into this
last aspect, because there is not much evidence. His choice of
people to lead his Empire resulted in the First World War.
Rating: 4
Summary: Adequate but fun to read
Comment: The author of this book accuses Michael Balfour in his biography of Wilhelm II of being "sympathetic" to his subject. This book is not. I found the book fun to read, tho it is not well footnoted and its bibliography is not a first-rate one, in my view. I suspect there are better biographies of Wilhelm II than this one. I read Balfour's The Kaiser and His Times, but I was not overly impressed by it, either. Does anyone know what is the best biography of Wilhelm II?
Rating: 3
Summary: Nothing new in here
Comment: This book was relatively interesting, but if you really want to dig into the detail about Wilhelm II's life, you'd be better off with Lamar Cecil's two volume work. There really wasn't much new news in here, and Van der Kiste treated his subject pretty lightly, all things considered. Excellent bibliography, though.
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Title: Queen Victoria's Children by John Van Der Kiste ISBN: 075093476X Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II by Giles MacDonogh ISBN: 0312276737 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 31 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania by Hannah Pakula ISBN: 0671463640 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: March, 1985 List Price(USD): $95.75 |
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Title: Edward the Caresser: The Playboy Prince Who Became Edward VII by Stanley Weintraub ISBN: 0684853183 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 23 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: An UNCOMMON WOMAN by Hannah Pakula ISBN: 0684842165 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 13 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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