The Kaiser's memoirs, Wilhelm II, emperor of Germany, 1888-1918 by Wilhelm II

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He liked to command an army in peacetime manoeuvres and he also liked to win, something the opposing commander always had to keep in mind if he was to have any further prospects. He cherished his relations with his armed forces to whom he was the All Highest War Lord. He was vainglorious and loved dressing up in uniform and striking imperious poses. An accident at birth had left him with a withered arm which he always tried to conceal. Wilhelm had been described by his grandmother, Queen Victoria, as conceited and hot headed he was certainly impetuous and liable to swings of mood and moments of indecision he firmly believed in the divine right of kings. He does not reminisce about his childhood and youth but plunges straight in with the nature of the relations and the quarrel between Bismarck and himself, for it was only two years into his reign that he gave the chancellor he had inherired from his grandfather Wilhelm I and his father Frederick III (they both died in 1888) the imperial heave-ho.The magazine Punch commented on this with its famous cartoon “Dropping the Pilot”. In these memoirs the Kaiser sets out to justify events and decisions taken by him during his thirty year reign, an apologia pro vita sua.

The Kaiser's memoirs, Wilhelm II, emperor of Germany, 1888-1918 by Wilhelm II