The Last Kaiser Australian History to the trenches in France

to the trenches in France

A toy soldier

African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army

the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes tells these young men's saga as the story of a generation

including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895–96• efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba• power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government• the organization's expansion during World War I• race riots in East St

The Last Kaiser Australian History to the trenches in FranceDescription by Giles MacDonogh Paperback Germany's last kaiser was born in Potsdam on January 27, 1859, the son of Prince Frederick of Prussia and Princess Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest child. William was born with a withered arm possibly the result of cerebral palsy and many historians have sought in this a clue to his behavior in later life. He was believed mad by some, eccentric by others. Possessed of a ferocious temper, he was prone to