13 Wednesday Jan 2021
Posted in Books
Another acquisition, I found a reference to this in a very interesting modern book about the Finckensteins (thanks Maria!); 1813/14 Tagebuchblätter eines Feldgeistlichen.
It contains a collection of letters and diary entries of an army chaplain during the Freiheitskrieg/Befreiungskrieg of 1813/1814.
I’ve yet to read it but on the back of the title page is a nice dedication from 1917:
I hope that little Theo and his aunt Emma got through the war OK…
04 Tuesday Jun 2019
A bit late in the day, but this seems relevant on the Todestag of Wilhelm II.
If even part of this American gentleman’s description of ‘Kaiser Bill’ is correct then it seems several people may have not been telling us the truth all these years (as demonstrated in parts of that Wikipedia link above). Wer hätte das gedacht…
The German Emperor, from What is Back of the War by Albert Beveridge.
13 Thursday Jul 2017
Today is the anniversary of the Emser Depesche incident, which led sofort to the Franco-Prussian War. The blame attached to Bismarck by most historians seems a little overdone to me, in line with general prussiabashing, but I’m no expert. If indeed the Prussians did provoke France into war it was a lesson well learnt by France/England/Russia in 1914, some would say.
Some more reading:
Preußische Kuriositäten 