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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/08/2011
ISBN: 9781400079124
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.14w x 1.22d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 04/24/2011 pg. 24
Library Journal 11/01/2013