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...KAISER (461 pp.)-Joachim von Kürenberg-Simon & Schuster...
...shapes up in The Kaiser of Prussian-born Biographer Joachim von Kürenberg is a vastly different fellow from the monster who was hanged in effigy throughout the U.S. in World War I. It is not simply that the author remembers Wilhelm II's good points; it is the fact that he had so many weak ones. Kürenberg's book makes the going a bit sticky for people whose knowledge of modern European history is shaky, but it will bring many a surprise to readers who vaguely remember Wilhelm as the Iron Hohenzollern...
...scrofulous" ear sickness that made a court physician advise an insurance company not to write a policy on his life. Later, many highly placed Germans said privately that their Emperor was insane, and a high official of the Foreign Office suggested to the British ambassador that he "treat the Kaiser as either a child or a fool...
...Kaiser was too complex to be either all of the time, but there were times when he could seem like both. To a sculptor working on a monument to Wilhelm's parents (Kaiser Friedrich and Kaiserin Victoria), the Kaiser sent an order saying that "Prussian eagles, even when sitting, must be represented as if they were flying." No great soldier himself, he worried his general staff, as Author Kürenberg puts it, by "losing himself more and more in external trappings, designing new uniforms and braidings or inventing cords and silver whistles for dispatch riders." He could...
...course, a Frenchman. He was also a genius. His name: Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), renowned as "the king of chefs and the chef of kings." He plied King George V with variations of one of the monarch's favorite dishes, cream cheese. He fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne. "How can I repay you?" the Kaiser asked. "Give us back Alsace-Lorraine," the Frenchman replied...