George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
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- ISBN13: 9781400043637
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In the years before the First World War, the fantastic 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 past sources to tell the tragicomic tale of a tiny, glittering, solipsistic world that was regularly preposterously out of kilter with its times, struggling to stay in mandate of politics and world events as history overtook it. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm is a brilliant and sometimes darkly hilarious portrait of these men—hurt, proud Wilhelm; silent, stubborn Nicholas; and nervous, dutiful George—and their lives, foibles and obsessions, from irritability to uniforms to stamp collecting. It is also alive with fresh, devious portraits of additional familiar facts: Queen Victoria—grandmother to two of them, grandmother-in-law to the third—whose conservatism and bullying obsession with family tree left a treacherous 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 tales 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 ruined forever the illusion of their close family tree relationships, with any sense of peace and harmony shattered in a final coda of murder, treachery and abdication.
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To the people who left sanctimonious comments about giving an ebook a low rating because of its fee: if you want to read a review of this book, visit the NYT Book Review site or similar.
I plot on buying this book, but I will not buy it from Amazon in any format. After getting sucked into shucking out huge bucks for a Kindle by the lure of $9.99 books, I am not pleased with this trend toward ever privileged prices.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I know that additional reviewers won’t like this one star due to fee, but please spare me your comments. I get how you feel. But one-starring kindle books seems to be the only way to let publishers know how ridiculous these prices are. Bring it down to $9.99.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Before I even got down to the reader’s review I had the same thought and was about to abandon the page and email the Kindle folks. This is only $3 less than the book? Are you kidding? Keep this up and my Kindle will become a paper weight.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Pay no attention to the stars — amazon required that I give a rating in order to comment. I haven’t read this book yet, but I marvel how this book is different from King, Kaiser, Tsar which came out, I judge, in 2008, and was very excellent. It explored the SAME topic, and the titles are eerily similar.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I haven’t read this book and I’m giving it five stars. Why? Why not? Look at all the terrible reviews it’s gotten because if its fee that has nothing to do with the content or quality of the book.
I don’t know if I’m sanctimonious for not liking the beside the point reviews, or just somebody who wants real reviews…..(Hint: I’m not sanctimonious). I come here to read reviews from people who are not professional editors, but people who are reading books for enjoyment. Persons are the reviews that are valuable to me. Giving a book a low score because you don’t like Amazon’s fee? HUH? Doesn’t that seem a small unfair to the leader?
Why do people reflect Amazon just randomly chooses books to gouge its customers on? Do people really reflect they spin the huge ‘fee veer’ over there at Amazon headquarters to determine the fee of a book? I’m not business mogul, but I reflect the fee is largely based upon the cost. Blame the publisher, not Amazon. If you buy it and you judge it’s overpriced, blame yourself. If Amazon wanted to gouge us, they would pick a lot more well loved book than this one, don’t ya’ reflect?
Well, that’s all I have to say on this; I have another review to go off and write; that book is only getting one star from me because the jacket is just hideous.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5