Germany's unjustly forgotten emperor. We are in the year 1888. On June 15, just ninety-nine days after his accession to the throne, the Prussian king and German emperor Friedrich III dies of laryngeal cancer. All of Europe is deeply moved by the cruel fate and death of a monarch who was celebrated as a war hero in Germany and appreciated abroad as a genial gentleman and liberal beacon of hope. A historical figure worth discovering. But who was this emperor really? Could he have changed the course of German history? The book goes far beyond the myths that suggest Friedrich's humane liberalism could have paved the way for a German-British alliance and possibly even avoided World War I. At the same time, it corrects the slanders and exaggerations he faced throughout his life.