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Kaiser Wilhelm Deserved Much Worse

Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of Germany. His delicate ego, intense jealousies, and unpredictable temper led straight to the calamitous events of WWI and the fall of the House of Hohenzollern ...
StrategyPage

Book Review: Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941: A Concise Life

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 244. Illus., notes, biblio., index. $27.99 paper. ISBN: 1107420776 Naturally, this book is not as detailed as ...
The Spokesman-Review

100 years ago in Spokane: Kaiser Wilhelm renounces throne

Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II decided to “renounce the throne,” under increasing pressure from most of Germany’s political parties. Germany’s troops were in retreat across Europe. Prince Maximilian, the ...
Wall Street Journal

Comparison Unfair to Wilhelm II and Trump

While Joseph Epstein draws attention to the comically similar temperaments and personality quirks of two prominent world leaders (“The Curious Parallels Between Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II,” op-ed, ...
The New York Times

NEWEST BIG LINER HERE; The Kaiser Wilhelm II. Fails to Break the Record. Officers Say No Attempt Was Made to Do So -- From Cherbourg to Sandy Hook in 5 Days 23 Hours.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Wall Street Journal

The Curious Parallels Between Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II

The other day, reading along in Ernst Pawel’s “The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl,” I had a Plutarchian moment. I refer of course to Plutarch (45-120), the Greek who wrote a series of ...