The causes for the First World War often boil down to the author of this book - the impetuous young Kaiser - the man who dropped the pilot - the cautious Iron Kanzler Otto von Bismarck, whose policies had kept the powder keg of Europe at peace for thirty years. Kaiser William II was only 40 years old when the First World War ended, yet he had already created an ineradicable image for himself as a belligerent, sabre-rattling warlord, prancing around...