George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I - Couverture souple

Carter, Miranda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1400079128 ISBN 13 : 9781400079124

Editeur : Vintage, 2011

Synopsis

In 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Miranda 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1400079128
• ISBN 13: 9781400079124
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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