The Kaisers

The Kaisers

â€œA lively and eminently readable book.â€
The Teacher

â€œAn engrossing piece of almost contemporary history.â€
Homes & Gardens

â€œA vivid evocation of the lives and characters of the personalities involved.â€
The Observer

â€œIn Mr Aronson we recognise at once an expert practitioner of the art.â€
Douglas Hurd, Spectator

There were but three Kaisers, and the span of their reigns lasted for less than fifty years; yet for sheer drama, for turbulence, for bloody impact upon the lives of millions, the short-lived Second Reich of the Hohenzollern dynasty, born out of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, nurtured in militarism, and self- immolated in the slaughter of the Western Front of 1914-18, is without parallel.

Theo Aronson's The Kaisers is the story of six people whose bitter differences were a microcosm of, and greatly influenced, a national conflict which echoed all round the world. Kaiser Wilhelm I, born 1797, King of Prussia 1861, proclaimed Emperor of all Germany 1871, died only in 1888 an autocratic, militaristic man of the eighteenth century completely opposed to the liberalizing ideas which swept Europe in his lifetime. In contrast his Empress, Augusta, was progressive in thought, open-minded in outlook, yet with all had a taste for the theatrical and pageantry of her royal status.

Theo Aronson's gifts as a writer have deservedly brought him high regard as a chronicler of the complex histories of Europe's great ruling Houses. Rarely have his talents been better employed than in this study of the comet-like rise and fall of the House of Hohenzollern, the House of the Kaisers of Germany. It is a story of bitter, almost continual conflict, yet even in what can now be seen as a path to inevitable destruction Mr. Aronson finds passages of light and shade that show the Hohenzollerns not simply as Wagnerian puppets posturing on a vast European stage, but people deserving of our understanding and compassion.
Country USA
Brand Thistle Publishing
Manufacturer Thistle Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
EANs 9781910198100
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Thistle Publishing
Manufacturer	Thistle Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
EANs	9781910198100
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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