For King and Kaiser: The spellbinding saga of a family torn apart by the Great War
August 1914 - Great Britain has just declared war on Germany. Franz and Catherine Hallermann and their children, Albert, Peter, and Sophie are painfully separated as a result of the Great War. Unmanageable circumstances and divided loyalties split the Anglo-German family. Will four years of war prevent the Hallermanns from being a family again or will they eventually reunite as the devoted relations they once were?
Meet Catherine's parents in London, Jeremy and Margaret Bowater, and enjoy her high-spirited cousin Lucy Montgomery, who is trapped in an unhappy marriage; and follow the siblings' trials and romances in England and Germany, and at the war ravaged front. Journey to Berlin and meet Franz's father, Otto, the wealthy patriarch who is obsessed with German victory at all costs; and meet Franz's sister Renate, a nun known as Sister Angela, who is also a nurse assigned to a field hospital at the front; and meet Franz's debonair bachelor cousin Walter Kohlmeyer, who fervently opposes the war. See how the relations in London and Berlin influence the Hallermann family and promote the resilience of Franz and Catherine throughout the course of the war. Additionally, meet the men of the British and German armies facing each other in the trenches; warm to them, and absorb the horrors that both sides encountered in their battles for victory.
Though Kaiser Wilhelm was the grandson of Great Britain's Queen Victoria and the cousin of the nation's wartime King, George V, these familial ties did not prevent Germany and Great Britain from going to war, just as their blood ties did not prevent the Hallermann family from dividing itself from itself. Is the Hallermanns' blood 'thicker' than the emotions that sought to separate the family during this intense 1914 - 1918 campaign? Will they survive the war and live to enjoy their first Christmas together after four years of intense fighting? Find out as this riveting story takes you to London, Berlin, and France's war torn Western Front.
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