Kaiser Wilhelm II , an old man living in exile, grasps what may be his last opportunity to shift the burden of guilt placed upon him for the greatest disaster to have befallen Western Civilisation. The unlikely instrument of this hoped for redemption is a young reporter sent by a newspaper editor anxious to avoid a second catastrophe. Is old man's story a self-serving fantasy, or a fact based narrative deliberately suppressed by those who wished to ensure the truth about their responsibility for the outbreak of war in 1914?The Kaiser's Redemption, set in the weeks after Neville Chamberlain's meeting with Adolf Hitler in September 1938, has at its heart the relationship between the exercise of power and the weaknesses inherent in human psychology.