After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...

Following the First World War three of the largest European Empires collapsed, with the German Empire being the last, after the November revolution broke out in several harbours and cities, and spread ...

On a cold January night in 1919, U.S. Army Col. Luke Lea and six American soldiers made a brazen visit to a 17th century Dutch castle where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exiled comfort with his wife and ...

A VIEW OF THE SPREE (305 pp.)—Alson J. Smith—John Day ($5.95). Americans popularly blamed World War I on the blustering German Kaiser and traced his evil aspirations back to Frederick the Great. They ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II is angry and wants to go to war. His eyes flare red when talking about his disdain for the British, and his jaw churns angrily as he voices the need for his beloved Germany to flex ...