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Author
Publisher
Sutton
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker and that of the English liberal gentleman.
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Piet and soldier, misanthrope and philosopher, Frederick the Great was a contradictory, almost unfathomable man. His conquests made him one of the most formidable and feared leaders of his era. But, as a patron of artists and intellectuals, Frederick re-created Berlin as one of the continent's great cities, matching his state's reputation for military ferocity with one for cultural achievement.
Though history remembers Frederick as a "Potsdam Fuhrer,"...
5) Wilhelm II
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1989-1996]
Language
English
11) Royal web
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Book Co
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
The story of Princess Victoria and Frederick of Prussia.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the contradictory ruler who helped elevate Prussia to a first-rate power in the eighteenth century explores such topics as his military accomplishments, his long relationship with Voltaire, and his embrace of Enlightenment philosophies.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Throughout their lives, Frederick the Great and his sister Wilhelmina had a particularly close relationship. "The belief that they shared a common fate was so persistent," Constance Wright says, "as to have at certain times a definite effect upon their lives." That "royal affinity" provides the central theme for Miss Wright's remarkable book. By telling the story of brother and sister, in a dual biography, she has found a fresh point of view toward...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Prussia's last King and Germany's last Kaiser was born in Potsdam on January 27, 1859, the son of Prince Frederick of Prussia and Princes Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest child. William was born with a withered arm and suffered from cerebral palsy; many historians have sought in this a clue to his behavior in later life. He was believed mad by some, eccentric by others. Possessed of a ferocious temper, he was prone to reactionary statements, often...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) is on e of the most fascinating figures in European history, ruling Imperial Germany from his accession in 1888 to his enforced abdication in 1918 at the end of the First World War. In one slim volume, John Röhl offers readers a concise and accessible survey of his monumental three-volume biography of the Kaiser and his reign. The book sheds new light on Wilhelm's troubled youth, his involvement in social and political...
