To quote the previous review..."A sophisticated, educated, and upper class Englishman visits his relatives in Germany and becomes aware of tensions between Bavaria and Munich and tensions between republicanism and monarchy. There is very little understanding between him and his relatives."It is not surprising that the Englishman is little understood by his German relatives if he is talking about "tensions between republicanism and monarchy", since the German monarchy was overthrown in November 1918 in a popular revolution, many years before the date of this book.I hope this oversight doesn't reflect further historical errors with the novel.