The Three Emperors - Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

Informationen zum Autor Miranda Carter Klappentext Miranda Carter's first book, Anthony Blunt: His Lives , won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The book was named as one of the New York Times Book Review's seven best books of 2002. Miranda lives in London with her husband and two sons. Zusammenfassung As cousins, George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends - but they happened also to rule Europe's three most powerful states. This book offers an account of how three men who should have known better helped bring down an entire world is a gripping story of abdication, betrayal and murder.

Product details

• Authors: Miranda Carter
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.07.2010
• EAN: 9780141019987
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101998-7
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Russia, Collected biographies, Germany, First World War, HISTORY / Military / World War I, HISTORY / Europe / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)