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000763973 1001_ $$aCarter, Miranda,$$d1965-
000763973 24510 $$aGeorge, Nicholas and Wilhelm :$$bthree royal cousins and the road to World War I /$$cMiranda Carter.
000763973 250__ $$a1st American ed.
000763973 260__ $$aNew York :$$bAlfred A. Knopf,$$c2010.
000763973 300__ $$axxv, 498 pages, [32] pages of plates :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c25 cm
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000763973 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000763973 500__ $$aOriginally published as: "The three emperors : three cousins, three empires and the road to World War One." London : Fig Tree, 2009.
000763973 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 469-478) and index.
000763973 5050_ $$aThree childhoods, three countries -- Wilhelm: an experiment in perfection, 1859 -- George: coming second, 1865 -- Nicholas: a diamond-studded ivory tower, 1868 -- Family ties, imperial contests -- Wilhelm emperor 1888-90 -- Young men in love 1891-94 -- Wilhelm anglophile 1891-95 -- Perfidious Muscovy 1895-97 -- Behind the wall 1893-1904 -- Imperial imperatives 1898-1901 -- A bright new century -- The fourth emperor 1901-4 -- Unintended consequences 1904-5 -- Continental shifts 1906-8 -- A Balkan crisis 1908-9 -- Edward's mantle 1910-11 -- Celebrations and warnings 1911-14 -- July 1914 -- Armageddon -- A war 1914-18.
000763973 520__ $$aIn the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world. Miranda Carter uses the cousins' correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell the tragicomic story of a tiny, glittering, solipsistic world that was often preposterously out of kilter with its times, struggling to stay in command of politics and world events as history overtook it. This book is a brilliant and sometimes darkly hilarious portrait of these men: damaged, egotistical Wilhelm; quiet, stubborn Nicholas; and anxious, dutiful George, and their lives, foibles and obsessions, from tantrums to uniforms to stamp collecting. It is also alive with fresh, subtle portraits of other familiar figures: Queen Victoria, grandmother to two of them, grandmother-in-law to the third, whose conservatism and bullying obsession with family left a dangerous legacy; and Edward VII, the playboy arch-vulgarian who turned out to have a remarkable gift for international relations and the theatrics of mass politics. At the same time, Carter weaves through their stories a riveting account of the events that led to World War I, showing how the personal and the political interacted, sometimes to devastating effect. For all three men the war would be a disaster that destroyed forever the illusion of their close family relationships, with any sense of peace and harmony shattered in a final coda of murder, betrayal and abdication.
000763973 60000 $$aWilliam$$bII,$$cGerman Emperor,$$d1859-1941.
000763973 60000 $$aGeorge$$bV,$$cKing of Great Britain,$$d1865-1936.
000763973 60000 $$aNicholas$$bII,$$cEmperor of Russia,$$d1868-1918.
000763973 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1914-1918$$xCauses.
000763973 651_0 $$aGermany$$xHistory$$yWilliam II, 1888-1918.
000763973 651_0 $$aGreat Britain$$xHistory$$yGeorge V, 1910-1936.
000763973 651_0 $$aRussia$$xHistory$$yNicholas II, 1894-1917.
000763973 651_0 $$aEurope$$xPolitics and government$$y1871-1918.
000763973 7001_ $$aCarter, Miranda,$$d1965-$$tThree emperors.
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