Memoirs of The Crown Prince of Germany (Classic Reprint)

IMPULSUS SCRIBENDI March, 1919. IT is evening. I have been wandering once more along the deserted and silent ways between the windswept and sodden meadows, through greyness and shadow. No human sound or sign. Only this sea wind driving at me and thrusting its fingers through my clothing. A March wind ! Spring is near at hand. I have been here four months. In the vast expanse above me sparkle the eternal stars, the same that look down upon Germany. From the horizon of the Zuyder Zee, the lighthouses of Den Oever and of Texel fling their beams into the deepening night. On my return I find my companion waiting anxiously at the little wicket-gate of the garden. Had I been gone such a long time ? I am now sitting in this small room of the Parsonage. The paraffin lamp is lighted ; it smokes and smells a little ; and the fire in the grate burns rather low and cheerless. Not a sound disturbs the silence, save this ceaseless moaning of the wind across the lonesome and slumbering island

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I; Childhood Days 13; 1 Boys will be Boys 13; 2 My Father's Nature 25; 3 Princes, Sovereigns and Sayings 31; CHAPTER II; 30LDIER, Sportsman and Student 38; 1 The Value of Prussian Drill 39; 2 Queen Victoria 44; 3 Student Life 45; 4 In Command of the Foot-Guards 50; CHAPTER III; Matrimonial and Post-matrimonial 57; 1 Freely Chosen, Freely Given 58; 2 Recollections of Russia 62; 3 Statecraft Studies in Germany and England 66; 4 The Row in the Reichstag 85; 5 How the Kaiser Worked -91; 6 Our pre-War Policy 94; 7 Travel Impressions 102; CHAPTER IV; Stress and Storm 108; 1 The Cloud on the Horizon 112; 2 The Cloud Bursts 119; 7; Stress and Storm, continued- page; 3 Our Military and Civil Leaders 132; 4 My Memorials 137; 5 Hindenburg and Ludendorff 154; CHAPTER V; Progress of the War 163; 1 Battle of the Marne 164; 2 Verdun 173; 3 Princes and Politicians at the Front 183; CHAPTER VI; The Great Collapse 195; 1 Foresee