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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE RISE AND FATT. OF PRUSSO-GERMANY ' The world-empires which military conquest has created in the past have, as a rule, proved exceedingly short-lived. The gigantic dominions subdued and ruled by Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and his successors, Charlemagne, Otto the Great, Attila, Jenghiz Khan, Tamerlane, the' Abbasids, Soliman the Magnificent, Charles V., and Napoleon have rapidly declined and decayed, but never in the world's history has a vast military empire collapsed so suddenly and so utterly as that of William II. The Bolsheviks were Germany's tools and Germany's agents. Hence all Germans saw in Russia a German protectorate, a German possession, a German India. In the summer of 1918 the empire of William II. extended from Zeebrugge to Vladivostok and to the Behring Strait, and from the Arctic Circle to the gates of India. It comprised 350,000,000 inhabitants. The last of the Hohenzollern rulers held sway over an immense empire, the territory of which vastly exceeded the gigantic empires conquered by the Romans, by Charlemagne, and by Napoleon. Only the empires conquered by Attila and by Jenghiz Khan could be compared to the new German world-empire. The Germans thought that they had firmly established the power of their country over the larger part of Europe and of Asia. Their faith in the permanence of their domination may be seen from the fact that after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk they invested vast sums in Russia, and that, as late as the middle of September, Stock Exchange quotations in Berlin, which had steadily been rising, were 1 From the Fortnightly Review, December 1918. still at their highest. In a few weeks the greatest military empire the world has ever seen tumbled down like a house of cards, and Germany itself became a prey to a ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217316927 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217316921 |
| Weight | 1.18 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 In |
| List Price | $24.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 364 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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