On July 28, 1914, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II returned to Berlin after a long sailing holiday in the North ... Wilhelm was Queen Victoria's grandson. The Brits hated Germany's new, high-tech navy.

The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II. of the North German Lloyd passed in Sandy Hook shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday morning, having lowered her own westward record from Cherbourg by making the run ...

Upon becoming Emperor in 1888, Wilhelm set about strengthening the German armed forces and his driving ambition was to make his navy the equal of the British one that boasted of ruling the waves.

Under Wilhelm II, the German army became the most feared in Europe and the navy grew to a degree that alarmed Britain. If the kaiser was the most dangerous of Ms. Carter’s trio, Nicholas was the ...

Kaiser Wilhelm was subject of satirical cartoons in the Mirror from 1914 and are going on show in Navy expo. ... Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son Crown Prince Wilhelm were caricatured in his work as ...

This Kaiser Wilhelm II beer stein was given to my uncle L. 2294 H. A. Burton O.S. 1 R.N. by an officer from the SMS Hindenburg. ... the last battle cruiser completed for the Imperial German Navy.

Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life In Power, By Christopher Clark A partial reprieve for the German lord of war. Reviewed, Brendan Simms. Friday 03 July 2009 00:00 BST. Comments.

Newly discovered childhood drawings by Kaiser Wilhelm II have shed new light on the personality of the man who led Germany into the disaster of the First World War, and was the last monarch to sit ...