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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400079124)
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xIn the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world.
Through brilliant and often darkly comic portraits of these men and their lives, their foibles and obsessions, Miranda Carter delivers the tragicomic story of Europe's early twentieth-century aristocracy, a solipsistic world preposterously out of kilter with its times.Author: Miranda Carter
ISBN-10: 1400079128
ISBN-13: 9781400079124
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2011
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.11w x 1.16d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/24/2011 pg. 24
Library Journal 11/01/2013
By Miranda Carter
xMiranda Carter is the author of Anthony Blunt: His Lives, which won the Orwell Prize for political writing and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Award, and was chosen as one of The New York Times Book Review's seven Best Books of 2002. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
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