This book, written during four years of exile by the world's foremost exponent of empire and militarism, is the ex-Kaiser's personal review of his career as Emperor of Germany from the beginning of his reign to the end in November, 1918. Not only was it written by Wilhelri himeelf, but the English translation, in carefully typewritten form, was submitted to him and read word for word—many of the pages of the manuscript showing his corrections, additions, and interlineations, written in English by his own hand.
The book contains detailed accounts of the writer's feeling about such important matters as the causes of the great war; the Versailles Treaty of Peace; America's early attitude coupled with the charge of a secret. agreement in 1897 with England and France; his reasons for signing the famous Kruger dispatch; the German policy in China and in the Near Bast; and domestic questions in Germany before and during the war, concluding with a forecast of Germany's future as he sees it,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.