Monday, May 18, 2015

# 61

 

Dear World War I Enthusiast:                                  


 

If you possess a KINDLE, and wish, I will gladly send you and your friends a FREE COPY of my E-book novel of newly found causes of World War One.

Please contact me at donaldconrad21at yahoo dot com.

 
 

Sincerely,

Donald Britton Conrad:


BS in Social Science, MA in History, MS in Counseling Psychology, Fellow of the British Gemmological Association Retired, Korean Conflict Veteran.

Published Several articles about World War War One.

Creator of Website of World War One and Two Veterans Memorials by state and city.



In the Service of God and Evil; A Psychological  Study of the Rise and Fall of Kaiser Wilhelm II

 

                                           Prologue

        September 1914/December 1918   

 

                                         Part 1   

   

                                   A Time of GRACE        

1.       Willy-Philly Circle. 1888.

2.       French Circle. 1903.

3.       Hentsch-Schornstein Circle. 1905.

4.       Willy’s Cronies Circle. 1905.

5.       Kaiser’s Business Circle. 1905.

6.       Kaiser-Menzel Circle. 1905.

7.       Thornstein Veblen Circle. 1905.

8.       Willy-Nicky Circle. 1905.

9.       The Björkö Circle. 1905.  

10.     Kaiser’s Mediterranean Circle. 1906.

11.     Wilhelm-Theodore Roosevelt Circle. 1909.

12.     The Last Joy-filled “Hoch! Hoch! Hoch! 1913.

                         

 

                                     Part 2


                                 A Time of DISGRACE

      13. Friedrich von Holstein Circle.




                                            Part 3



                            IN THE SERVICE OF EVIL

      14. Economists meet in England. 1913. 

      15. The Enemy Alliances Plot. 1913

      16. Hapsburg Circle. 1914.

      17. Conspirator's Circle. 1914.

      18. Potsdam Conference. 1914.   

      19. The Ultimation. 1914.

      20. The Servian Response. 1914.

      21. Circle of Deception. 1914.

       22. The Kaiser’s Dream. 1914.

       23. Moltke’s War Circle. 1914.

       24.  Dealing with Indecision. 1914.

       25. Kaiser Meets with General von Kluck. 1914.

       26. Moltke sets up HQ. 1914.

       27. Prittwitz Fails the Test. 1914.





                                         Part 4   



                                 Blood on the Moon 

         28. Der Tag. Von Kluck’s Campaign, Belgium. 16 August 1914.

         29. Von Kluck at Mons. 23 August 1914.

         30. The Fortnight that wasn’t. 1914.

         31. Von Kluck’s Turn. 30 August 1914.

         32. March to the River Marne. 2 September 1914.

         33. Von Kluck crosses the Marne. 6 September 1914.

         34. Battle of the River Ourcq. 7 September 1914.

         35. Hentsch Visits Front Lines. 8 September 1914.

         36. Retreat.

         37. Headlines. 1914-1918.

         38. Broken Circle. 1918.




                                         Part 5


   The End of the Trail

           39. Abdication. 1918.

        40. Flight. 1918.

        41. Epilogue. 1918.

 
 
 
 
 

  

 

   

# 60


                            Murderers' Gallery              

Part One

 

 The Allies



 

  1. Tsar Nicholas II, Russia

Nicholas II by Boissonnas & Eggler c1909.jpg

   

   2. King George V, Great Britain

Full-length portrait in oils of George V

 

   3. President Raymond Poincare, France


 

  4. President Bernardino Machado, Portugal

Bernardino Machado.jpg

 

   5. King Peter I, Serbia

PetarI-Karadjordjevic.jpg

 

   6. King Albert I, Belgium

 A man wearing a military uniform, and helmet, with a moustache.

 

   7. Emperor Yoshihito/Taisho, Japan

Emperor Taishō.jpg

 

   8. King Nikola I, Montenegro

King Nikola of Montenegro.jpg

 

   9. King Constantine I, Greece

King Constantine Ι of Greece, 1914, by Laszlo.jpg

 

   10. King Vittorio Emanuele III, Italy

 Vitorioemanuel.jpg

 

   11. Premier Minister Aristide Briand, France

Aristide Briand 07.jpg

 

   12. King Ferdinand I, Romania

Ferdinand I de Romania.jpg

 

   13. Prime Minister Eleufherios Venizelos, Greece

Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος.jpg

 

   14. Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, Great Britain

Herbert Henry Asquith.jpg

 

   15. Foreign Minister Sergei D. Sazonov, Russia


 

   16. Prime Minister Nikola Pachitch, Serbia

Nikola Pašić

 

 

   17. Minister of Munitions  David  Lloyd George, Great Britain

David Lloyd George.jpg

   18. Antonino Paterno Castello, Marchese di San Giuliano, Italy


Marchese di San Giuliano.jpg

 19. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, Great Britain




  

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

# 59

 

 

Murderer's Gallery

Central Powers

Part Two




1. Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany




2. Emperor Franz Joseph I, Austria Hungary

Emperor Francis Joseph.jpg

3. Mehmed V, Sultan of Turkey

Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire cropped.jpg


4. King Ferdinand I, Bulgaria

Zar Ferdinand Bulgarien.jpg

 

5. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Germany

Bundesarchiv Bild 134-C1743, Alfred von Tirpitz.jpg 


6. Chancellor Theobald  von Bethman-Hollweg, Germany

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg.jpg

7. Minister of War Ismail Enver Bey, Turkey

Ismail Enver.jpg

8. Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg

President Hindenburg.jpg

9. General Frantz Conrad von Hotzendorf, Austria

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (Hermann Torggler, 1915).jpg


10. Count Leopold Berchtold, Imperial Foreign Minister, Austria


Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2004-1110-500, Leopold Graf Berchtold.jpg

11. Count Istvan Tisza, Premier of Hungary

Istvan Tisza.jpg

12. Quartermaster General Erich Ludendorff, Germany

Erich Ludendorff.jpg