Prince karl max lichnowsky (2 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Original publisher's brown paper wrappers with staple binding. 6" x 9." Forty-four pages, complete. Pages are clean and intact overall but have browning, slight wrinkling, and slightly chipped corners at fore-edge. Covers are clean and intact overall but have browning and slight wrinkling and have been re-glued along spine. A Very Good copy. Autobiographical account of Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky (1860-1928), a German diplomat who served as the ambassador to Great Britain during the July Crisis. Lichnowsky elaborates on his diplomatic trip to London from 1912-1914. This was his famous pamphlet (first privately published in 1916) in which he denounced Germany's actions. The 1917 edition published in the United States led to his expulsion from the Prussian House of Lords. Notably, Lichnowsky was the only German diplomat at the time who had raised objections to the German government's approach to diplomacy. He had feared Germany's interest in provoking an Austro-Serbian war would result in Britain entering the war, thus sparking a continental war. Unfortunately, Lichnowsky's fears proved to be correct with the onset of World War I. Preface by Professor Gilbert Murray.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Author Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky Title Heading for the Abyss: Reminiscences Publication Details London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1928. Hardback edition. Translated into English by F. Sefton Delmer. xxvi, 471 pages. Condition Good condition. Sound binding and boards. Text complete and readable throughout. Expected age-related wear and light foxing may be present consistent with a book of this period. An attractive and increasingly collectible interwar political memoir. Description A remarkable and controversial memoir by Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky, German Ambassador to Britain during the crucial years immediately preceding the outbreak of the First World War. In Heading for the Abyss, Lichnowsky provides a firsthand account of European diplomacy, Anglo-German relations, and the political misjudgements that he believed led Europe into catastrophe. Drawing upon personal experience and diplomatic correspondence, the author offers a candid critique of German foreign policy and reflects upon the failures of statesmanship that culminated in the events of 1914. The volume includes material relating to his London mission, international diplomacy, and the growing tensions between the European powers before the war. Published in 1928, the book remains an important primary source for historians of the First World War and twentieth-century diplomacy. It continues to attract collectors interested in European political history, international relations, and pre-war Britain and Germany.…