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The Three Emperors - Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One (Paperback)
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The Three Emperors - Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One (Paperback)
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Loot Price R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
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Discover the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers
of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last
century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.
Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin. 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 potent combination together with their
own destructive personalities - petty, insecure, bullying, absurdly
obsessive (stamp collecting, uniforms) - led not only to their own
dramatic fallouts and falls from grace, but also to the outbreak of
the First World War. Miranda Carter's riveting 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.
'Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed
work of history' Mail on Sunday 'Miranda Carter's story is full of
vivid quotations . . . a romp though the palaces of Europe in their
last decades before Armageddon' Sunday Times 'Fascinating. Carter
is a gifted storyteller and has written a very readable account'
Independent 'That these three absurd men could ever have held the
fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is
terrifying. I haven't enjoyed a historical biography this much
since Lytton Strachey's Victoria' Zadie Smith
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