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The Emperors: How Europe’s Rulers were destroyed by The First World War

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By Gareth Rusell Amberley Publishing, 2015, £9.99, 227pp, soft covers; illustrated plus notes, bibliography and index Also available in hardback. ISBN 978-1-4456-5020-0 Book review by Barbara Taylor   To understand how the First World War came about, it is necessary to understand the way in which regimes in the main empires involved operated. Th...

Ep.263 – The German Colonies in the First World War – Prof Matt Fitzpatrick

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Historian Professor Matt Fitzpatrick, Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Australia, talks about his research into the fate of two Imperial German colonial possessions, German Cameroon and German Samoa, in the opening months of the First World War....

The Life and Times of Kaiser Wilhelm II by Gerry White

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During the Great War, many people considered the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, to be the embodiment of Prussian militarism and the Supreme War Lord who directed Germany’s military campaigns during the conflict. But how much of this picture is true? In this presentation, Gerry White looks at the Kaiser’s life and times. The topics covered in...