Following the First World War three of the largest European Empires collapsed, with the German Empire being the last, after ...

Bismarck was fired by Wilhelm ii and the latter’s ambitious foreign policy got Germany into conflict with other European powers. Germany was no longer ‘saturiert’, as Bismarck called it years before.

On July 28, 1914, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II returned to Berlin after a long sailing holiday in the North Sea and off Norway. While vacationing, Wilhelm had tried to follow the events of July 1914 -- ...

Graham Allison is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School. One hundred years ago this week, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of ...

Queen Victoria’s grand plan to marry as many of her descendants as possible into the reigning families of Europe resulted in her progeny sitting on the thrones of no fewer than 10 nations. After all, ...

This week marks the return of Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight, an all-singing, all-dancing sailing competition attended by the great and the good of high society. The annual festivities have had a ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II is angry and wants to go to war. His eyes flare red when talking about his disdain for the British, and his jaw churns angrily as he voices the need for his beloved Germany to flex ...

The decades leading up to World War I were, across Europe, an era of dwindling dynasties and triumphal facial hair. King George V of Britain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia each possessed impeccable ...

DENVER — Kaiser Wilhelm II is angry and wants to go to war. His eyes flare red when talking about his disdain for the British, and his jaw churns angrily as he voices the need for his beloved Germany ...