Excerpt from The King These are the questions with which the King, in the days in which Rosner describes him, is shown as tormenting himself. Not a strong figure, but one for which one cannot but feel compassion. He did not make his own nature, nor did those about him counsel him wisely. Even the ground plan of the Great General Staff was based on what turned out to be a colossal military error. It took insufficient account of the implications of superior sea-power. The result was an effective blockade, and the ultimate weakening of the foundations of the German Army. None of these things were made clear to the Emperor, and yet he had accepted the fullest responsibility for their consequences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.