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Young Wilhelm The Kaiser's Early Life, 18591888
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Young Wilhelm The Kaiser's Early Life, 18591888 Hardcover - 1999

by John C. G. Röhl


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This rich and compelling volume describes the life of Kaiser Wilhelm II from his birth in 1859 to his accession to the Prusso-German throne in 1888, a story so extraordinary that it will fascinate anyone interested in the psychology and the throng of personalities of the period. Its aim is to set the characters on the stage and let them speak for themselves, which in their letters and diaries the Victorians and Wilhelminians did with quite extraordinary clarity and persuasive power. The central theme is the bitter conflict between the handicapped Prince and his liberal parents, and in particular with his mother, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and the utter failure of a daring educational experiment intended to turn the young Prince into a liberal Anglophile.

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SHORTLY after 3 p.m. on 27 January 1859, at the Kronprinzenpalais on Berlin's Unter den Linden, the newly-born baby was carefully inspected by the British ambassador, Baron Bloomfield, and the Prussian Minister of the Royal House, Ludwig von Massow.

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  • Title Young Wilhelm The Kaiser's Early Life, 18591888
  • Author John C. G. Röhl
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 1016
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date January 13, 1999
  • ISBN 9780521497527
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Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859–1888
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Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859–1888

by Röhl, John C. G

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