[Gutenberg 44979] • The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp / From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville
- Authors
- Fischer, Henry W.
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Tags
- 1859-1941 -- fiction , bertha , 1886-1957 -- fiction , krupp , william ii , german emperor
- ISBN
- 9798607768713
- Date
- 2020-02-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.22 MB
- Lang
- en
The Real War Lord-Putting on the Screw-The Kaiser's Plot Revealed- Disinheriting the Baroness-A Startler for the War Lord-Bertha to be Sole Heiress-Frederick Makes His Will-The War Lord Loses his Temper-A Base Suggestion On a bright August day of 1902 the neighbourhood of Villa Huegel, overlooking the forest of smoke-stacks, cranes, masts and other erections that silhouette the town of Essen, was like an armed camp. Its master, Frederick Krupp, cannon king and war promoter, while not entitled to household troops, has an army of firemen as large as the contingent of the mighty potentate of Reuss-GreizSchleiz-Lobenstein, and this was pre-eminently the season and hour of military display.