9781842124789

Book Description: Orion Publishing Group, London, United Kingdom, 2000. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Sixteen pages of plates in black and white. Prussia's last King and Germany's last Kaiser was born in Potsdam in 1859, the son of Prince Frederick of Prussia and Princess Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest child. William was born with a withered arm and suffered from cerebral palsy. Believed mad by some, eccentric by others, he possessed a ferocious temper, was rumoured to have sired numerous illegitimate children (and suspected of homosexual affairs) and yet appeared a prig. A power grabber who built a fleet targeted at Britain, he nevertheless idolised Queen Victoria who, he claimed, died in his arms. William II was also a war monger whose sabre-rattling over Serbia brought about the First World War which cost him his own throne and his country's defeat. Bookseller Inventory # 000724

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