Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-1941

Rohl, John C. G.; De Bellaigue, Sheila (Trans.); Bridge, Roy (Trans.)

ISBN 10: 0521844312 / ISBN 13: 9780521844314

Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, 2014

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First Edition. Hardcover. 10" X 7". xxix, 1562pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Creasing to upper corners of front and rear of jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, with bumping to head and tail of spine and to bottom corner of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This final volume of John C. G. Röhl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World War. The book examines the Wilhelm's part in the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the naval arms race with Britain and Germany's rivalry with the United States as well as in the crises over Morocco, Bosnia and Agadir. It also sheds new light on the public scandals which accompanied his reign from the allegations of homosexuality made against his intimate friends to the Daily Telegraph affair. Above all, John Röhl scrutinises the mounting tension between Germany and Britain and the increasing pressure the Kaiser exerted on his Austro-Hungarian ally from 1912 onwards to resolve the Serbian problem. Following Germany's defeat and Wilhelm's enforced abdication, he charts the Kaiser's bitter experience of exile in Holland and his frustrated hopes that Hitler would restore him to the throne.(Publisher).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-1941
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521844312
• ISBN 13: 9780521844314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Memoir
  • History & Geography

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Synopsis

This final volume of John C. G. Röhl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World War. The book examines the Wilhelm's part in the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the naval arms race with Britain and Germany's rivalry with the United States as well as in the crises over Morocco, Bosnia and Agadir. It also sheds new light on the public scandals which accompanied his reign from the allegations of homosexuality made against his intimate friends to the Daily Telegraph affair. Above all, John Röhl scrutinises the mounting tension between Germany and Britain and the increasing pressure the Kaiser exerted on his Austro-Hungarian ally from 1912 onwards to resolve the Serbian problem. Following Germany's defeat and Wilhelm's enforced abdication, he charts the Kaiser's bitter experience of exile in Holland and his frustrated hopes that Hitler would restore him to the throne..

About the Author

John C. G. Röhl is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sussex. His many previous publications include The Kaiser and his Court (1994) which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize as well as the two previous volumes of his biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II - Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859–1888 (Cambridge, 1998) and Wilhelm II: The Kaiser's Personal Monarchy, 1888–1900 (Cambridge, 2004), which have won the Einhard Prize for the biography of a major European figure in 2012.