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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm

three royal cousins and the road to World War I

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An edition of George, Nicholas and Wilhelm (2010)

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm

three royal cousins and the road to World War I

1st American ed.

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In the years before World War I, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II. Carter uses the cousins' correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell their tragicomic stories.

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Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
498

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Subjects
Politics and government, World War, 1914-1918, Causes, History
People
William II German Emperor (1859-1941), George V King of Great Britain (1865-1936), Nicholas II Emperor of Russia (1868-1918)
Places
Europe, Great Britain, Germany, Russia
Times
1871-1918, William II, 1888-1918, Nicholas II, 1894-1917, George V, 1910-1936

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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: three royal cousins and the road to World War I
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Table of Contents

Three 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.

Edition Notes

Originally published as: The three emperors : three cousins, three empires and the road to World War One. London : Fig Tree, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-478) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.3/112
Library of Congress
D517 .C34 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxv, 498 p., [32] p. of plates :
Number of pages
498

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24879075M
Internet Archive
georgenicholaswi00cart_0
ISBN 10
1400043638
ISBN 13
9781400043637
LCCN
2009037690
OCLC/WorldCat
419798177

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