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Originally Posted by Redbrow
The book is The Kaiser's Daughter: Memoirs of H. R. H. Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick and Luneburg, Princess of Prussia
It runs around $30 to $60 as a used and rare book.
Check out her Prussian death's head http://news.webshots.com/photo/26945...00532270fQlywo
http://news.webshots.com/album/560236968ywefzn?start=12
Germany can only be described as phenomenal at this time period and most of what Hitler built upon was simply the remains of the old Imperial Germany. How Germany went from having very little in the way of a navy or subs to being one of the most advanced nation with such arms in less than 13 years is quite a story.
Japan was also phenomenal at the beginning of the 20th century, able to beat the Russian navy while only having been shook from its ancient feudal past mere decades before. |
I believe this was to a large extend at the expense of France. After the (prussian) victory in 1871 the French were forced to pay huge amounts of money and to hand over the disputed territories of Alsace/Lorraine which left an also re-united Germany in her most favourable situation.
This often forgotten fact was also a major reason for the French exorbitance in the Versailles treaty of 1918. France saw this as a pay back they could righteously demand. Lest we forget that the French were not acting without reason or justification of their own.