George, Nicholas and Wilhelm [A Triple Biography]

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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I. Miranda Carter. In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were a family affair, 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, and one that could have been avoided. Through brilliantly descriptive portraits of these men and their lives, their dark comic foibles and obsessions, Miranda Carter delivers the tragicomic story of Europe’s early twentieth-century aristocracy, a carefully braided triple biography in a world preposterously out of kilter with its times.

NY: Knopf, 2010. 3rd printing, 560 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Like new, no ownership marks. 1 copy only.