Excerpt from The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp: From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'alteville ON a bright August day of 1902 the neighbourhood of Villa Huegel, overlooking the forest of smoke stacks, cranes, masts and other erections that silhouette the town of Essen, was like an armed camp. Its master, Frederick Krupp, cannon king and war promoter, While not entitled to household troops, has an army of firemen as large as the contingent of the mighty potentate of reuss-greiz-schleiz-lobenstein, and this was pre eminently the season and hour of military display. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.