Imperial Challenge: Ambassador Count Bernstorff and German-American Relations, 1908-1917.

Imperial Challenge: Ambassador Count Bernstorff and German--American Relations, 1908--1917, by Reinhard R. Doerries (Chapel Hill/London: U. of North Carolina P., 1989; pp. xix + 442. $49.50) was originally published in German in 1975 as Washington--Berlin, 1908/1917, and was based mainly upon West German archival materials. The present English version has been greatly expanded on the basis of the author's research in the United States on the papers of Woodrow Wilson, as well as in the files of the Department of State at the National Archives, and in the files of the British Foreign and War Offices at the Public Record Office. It takes its place amidst an ever-growing body of …