Miranda Carter The Three Emperors 9780670915569

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Автор: Miranda Carter
Название: The Three Emperors
Перевод названия: Три императора
ISBN: 9780670915569
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0670915564
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 608
Вес: 1.04 кг.
Дата издания: 03.09.2009
Серия: Biography
Размер: 234 x 153
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Three cousins, three empires and the road to world war one
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In the years before the First World War, the great European powers, Britain, Germany and Russia, were ruled by three cousins: George V, King-Emperor of England, the British Empire and India; Wilhelm II, the last Kaiser; and Nicholas II, the last Tsar. 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 which set twentieth century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world. Miranda Carter uses the cousins correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell the tragicomic story of a tiny, glittering, solipsistic world that was often preposterously out of kilter with its times, struggling to stay in command of politics and world events as history overtook it.

The Three Emperors is a brilliant and sometimes hilarious portrait of three men - damaged, egotistical Wilhelm, quiet, stubborn Nicholas and anxious, dutiful George - and their lives, foibles and obsessions, from tantrums to uniforms to stamp collecting. It is also alive with fresh, subtle portraits of other familiar figures: Queen Victoria - grandmother to two of them, grandmother-in-law to the third - whose conservatism and bullying obsession with family left a dangerous legacy; and of Edward VII, the playboy arch-vulgarian who turned out to have a remarkable gift for international relations and the theatrics of mass politics. At the same time it weaves through their stories a riveting account of the events that led to World War One, showing how the personal and the political interacted, sometimes to devastating effect.

For all three men the war would be a disaster which destroyed for ever the illusion of their close family relationships, with any sense of peace and harmony shattered in a final code of murder, betrayal and abdication.

The Three Emperors, Miranda Carter