The Last Kaiser

"Historically he has been blamed for World War I, although he made real efforts to prevent it. He has been branded an anti-semite, but ironically the Nazis wrote him off as a 'Jew-lover'. In this fascinating, authoritative new life, MacDonogh, widely praised for his biography of Frederick the Great, takes a fresh look at this complex and contradictory statesman and the charges against him to find that many of these can no longer be upheld."--BOOK JACKET.