{"product_id":"9780141019987","title":"The Three Emperors : Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Carter, Miranda\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 29 July 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 624 pages, 2x16 insets\u003cbr\u003e199 x 131 x 39 | 434g\u003cp\u003eDiscover the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs cousins, George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends - but they happened also to rule Europe's three most powerful states. This potent combination together with their own destructive personalities - petty, insecure, bullying, absurdly obsessive (stamp collecting, uniforms) - led not only to their own dramatic fallouts and falls from grace, but also to the outbreak of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiranda Carter's riveting account of how three men who should have known better helped bring down an entire world is a gripping story of abdication, betrayal and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history' Mail on Sunday'Miranda Carter's story is full of vivid quotations . . . a romp though the palaces of Europe in their last decades before Armageddon' Sunday Times'Fascinating. Carter is a gifted storyteller and has written a very readable account' Independent'That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying. I haven't enjoyed a historical biography this much since Lytton Strachey's Victoria' Zadie Smith\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carter, Miranda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42536928084152,"sku":"9780141019987","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780141019987.jpg?v=1734750716","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780141019987","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}