“The Exception” is a handsomely mounted World War II-era romantic thriller, enlivened by vibrant performances and vivid sexual encounters and inspired by a little-known footnote to history, the story ...

The "madman theory" is a coercive diplomatic strategy involving extreme threats and brinkmanship, exemplified by historical ...

“The Exception,” which opens tomorrow with a cast headed by Oscar winner Christopher Plummer as Germany’s exiled emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, rates as WWII spy thriller, romantic drama and character ...

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 244. Illus., notes, biblio., index. $27.99 paper. ISBN: 1107420776 Naturally, this book is not as detailed as ...

On December 8th 1912, Kaiser Wilhelm II summoned his senior officers to his palace in Potsdam to discuss how to deal with a war on two fronts against France, Britain and Russia. "Summoned to the ...

Wilhelm was the last German emperor (Kaiser) and king of Prussia. As a child he was subjected to cruel physical conditioning to "correct" physical disabilities. This, combined with the standard ...

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While Joseph Epstein draws attention to the comically similar temperaments and personality quirks of two prominent world leaders (“The Curious Parallels Between Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II,” op-ed, ...

Fuelled by a desire to convey the truth of the rapidly changing world around them, two groups of artists — Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter — ...

The Labour MP George Barnes announced in November 1918, during the general election campaign following the end of the First World War, that he was "for hanging the Kaiser". He held the German emperor, ...

"The Exception" is a handsomely mounted World War II-era romantic thriller, enlivened by vibrant performances and vivid sexual encounters and inspired by a little-known footnote to history, the story ...