The Hohenzollerns

How One Royal Dynasty Ruled Prussia, Forged an Empire, and Lost Everything by 1918

von Eva Myers

256 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A prince chained to a cell window, forced by his own father to watch the executioner's blade fall on the man he loved.This did not happen in a novel. It happened inside the family that would one day rule an empire.Few people know that Germany's last emperors descended from minor Swabian nobles who once controlled nothing more than a single hilltop fortress. Fewer still know exactly how that family clawed its way, through marriage, war, and calculated betrayal, to the head of the most formidable empire in Europe, only to lose every acre of it within a matter of weeks in 1918.THE HOHENZOLLERNS: How One Royal Dynasty Ruled Prussia, Forged an Empire, and Lost Everything by 1918 strips away the myths that have grown around this family for a century and replaces them with what actually happened, a story often more dramatic than the legend.Inside, you will discover why a doctored telegram was enough to start a war, how an aging emperor survived two assassination attempts within a single month, the brutal colonial war Germany's own government did not formally apologize for until 2023, and how one abdication, announced in Berlin before the emperor himself had agreed to it, brought nine centuries of rule to an end in a single autumn.The hidden truth behind the German Empire's rise is not what most readers expect, and its fall is even less so.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175802369
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published