Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941Cambridge University Press, 6 de febr. 2014 - 1562 pàgines 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.. |
Continguts
Death and transfiguration | 1 |
The Kaiser and England during the Boer War | 18 |
I am the balance of power in Europe Wilhelm between Britain Russia and France | 48 |
The Boxer Rebellion and the Baghdad railway | 73 |
Wilhelm II and Bulows Chancellorship | 96 |
Wilhelm II and the Germans 1900 to 1904 | 127 |
We two make history and destiny is in our hands Kaiser and Tsar on the eve of the RussoJapanese War | 163 |
the Kaiser the King and public opinion | 190 |
from Bulow to Bethmann Hollweg | 729 |
Wilhelm and the direction of foreign policy under Bethmann Hollweg | 749 |
The King is dead or new hopes of an agreement with England | 769 |
the leap of the Panther 794 | 794 |
The enemy identified The acceleration of the naval race and the growing menace of war 814 | 814 |
Already leader of the United States of Europe? Wilhelm and the debacle of the Haldane mission | 838 |
the strategic switch from west to east 874 | 874 |
the unresolved problem of Britains neutrality | 899 |
The Kaiser and America | 212 |
Edward VII and the encirclement of Germany | 245 |
the RussoJapanese War and its consequences | 263 |
Operational plans for a war in western Europe | 294 |
Paris must get one in the eye from us one day The Kaiser and the first Morocco crisis | 329 |
A turningpoint in the history of Europe or the fiasco of Bjorko | 354 |
Balance of power or hegemony? The AngloGerman conflict and the quarrel with King Edward | 381 |
Humiliation in Algeciras | 418 |
caught in the web of the Entente | 437 |
Germanys Dreadnought Leap The Kaiser and his navy | 464 |
The zenith of Personal Monarchy The Kaiser and the government on the eve of the great crisis | 498 |
Kings are only human after all Scandals at the Hohenzollern court | 522 |
Prince Eulenburgs downfall The campaign against the Liebenberg Camarilla | 545 |
The Kaisers visit to Windsor and Highcliffe November to December 1907 | 581 |
The hot summer of 1908 On the verge of war with Britain | 605 |
24 Our Kaiser and his People The crisis of Wilhelms Personal Monarchy | 644 |
Nemesis Wilhelm II and the Daily Telegraph affair | 662 |
Upheaval in the Balkans Kaiser Wilhelm and the Bosnian annexation crisis of 1908 to 1909 | 696 |
Berlin has warned us off again The postponed racial war against Slavdom | 917 |
Kaiser and Reich Wilhelms Personal Monarchy on the eve of war | 954 |
With head held high and hand on swordhilt Preparations for war 1913 to 1914 | 980 |
the decisionforwar | 1008 |
The Kaisers last Norwegian cruise | 1029 |
the fear of Britains involvement | 1046 |
the outbreak of war | 1084 |
The Supreme War Lord in the First World War | 1108 |
The Kaisers war aims | 1135 |
Downfall The collapse ofthe Hohenzollern Monarchy | 1164 |
The unicorn in winter A new life in exile | 1188 |
Blood must flow much blood The Kaiser and the swinish Weimar Republic | 1214 |
Monarch by the grace of Hitler? Wilhelm II and the Third Reich | 1240 |
Notes | 1268 |
Archival sources | 1474 |
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