BOOKS ABROAD: Effeminate War Lord

Hereunder TIME reviews collectively books pertinent to FOREIGN NEWS.

Emil Ludwig, who wrote about Napoleon (TIME, Feb. 28) now presents a Kaiser.¹

"In the following pages," warns Biographer Ludwig, "neither Socialist nor alien voices will be heard—only the voices of the Emperor, his relatives and friends, his Chancellors, Ministers and Generals, his courtiers and officials." Out of their own mouths these men condemn themselves—but of very different offenses than were attributed to them during the War. Says the author: "The War-years, to which the youngest reader can bear witness, receive the least extended...