My Four Years in Germany
by James W. Gerard
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James W. Gerard, a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court, served as the U.S. ambassador to Imperial Germany from 1913-191, Gerard published his memoirs from Berlin in summer 1917 under the title, My Four Years in Germany.Tags
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I thought this would be very dry reading and that I would quit very quickly. I bought the book because I love hardcover books. I was wrong about the subject and the writer. It was a personal look into the time leading up to and just after the start of WWI by the US ambassador during that time. I learned more about WWI and the German geography than I had known before. I had questions answered and learned things I didn't even know to ask. Although, there was some dry reading but the content was enough to keep my attention. The writer, who was the ambassador at the time, states from the beginning that the book is not a recount of the stuff already in history books and readily available in US State Department collections. I recommended it show more to an Economics college professor. show less
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First published in 1917
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Publisher's Weekly NON-Fiction list - 1912 - 1975
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- Canonical title
- My Four Years in Germany
- Original publication date
- 1917
- Important events
- World War I
- Related movies
- My Four Years in Germany (1918, Warner Brothers)
- Dedication
- To my small but tactful family of one, my wife
- First words
- The second day out on the Imperator headed for a summer's vacation a loud knocking woke me at seven A. M. The radio handed in from a friend in New York told me of my appointment as Ambassador to Germany.
- Original language
- English
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- Members
- 137
- Popularity
- 237,885
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 17






























































