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King, Kaiser, Tsar

Author : Catrine Clay
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473612519
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book King, Kaiser, Tsar written by Catrine Clay and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last days of July 1914 telegrams flew between the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar. George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, known in the family as Georgie, Willy and Nicky, were cousins. Between them they ruled over half the world. They had been friends since childhood. But by July 1914 the Trade Union of Kings was falling apart. Each was blaming the other for the impending disaster of the First World War. 'Have I gone mad ' Nicky asked his wife Alix in St Petersburg, showing her another telegram from Willy. 'What on earth does William mean pretending that it still depends on me whether war is averted or not!' Behind the friendliness of family gatherings lurked family quarrels, which were often played out in public. Drawing widely on previously unpublished documents, this is the extraordinary story of their overlapping lives, conducted in palaces of unimaginable opulence, surrounded by flattery and political intrigue. And through it runs the question: to what extent were the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar responsible for the outbreak of the war, and, as it turned out, for the end of autocratic monarchy

King, Kaiser, Tsar

Author : Catrine Clay
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473612519
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book King, Kaiser, Tsar written by Catrine Clay and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last days of July 1914 telegrams flew between the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar. George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, known in the family as Georgie, Willy and Nicky, were cousins. Between them they ruled over half the world. They had been friends since childhood. But by July 1914 the Trade Union of Kings was falling apart. Each was blaming the other for the impending disaster of the First World War. 'Have I gone mad ' Nicky asked his wife Alix in St Petersburg, showing her another telegram from Willy. 'What on earth does William mean pretending that it still depends on me whether war is averted or not!' Behind the friendliness of family gatherings lurked family quarrels, which were often played out in public. Drawing widely on previously unpublished documents, this is the extraordinary story of their overlapping lives, conducted in palaces of unimaginable opulence, surrounded by flattery and political intrigue. And through it runs the question: to what extent were the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar responsible for the outbreak of the war, and, as it turned out, for the end of autocratic monarchy

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm

Author : Miranda Carter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400079128
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George, Nicholas and Wilhelm written by Miranda Carter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

King, Kaiser, Tsar

Author : Catrine Clay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719565366
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book King, Kaiser, Tsar written by Catrine Clay and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last days of July 1914 telegrams flew between the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar. George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, known in the family as Georgie, Willy and Nicky, were cousins. Between them they ruled over half the world. They had been friends since childhood. But by July 1914 the Trade Union of Kings was falling apart. Each was blaming the other for the impending disaster of the First World War. 'Have I gone mad?' Nicky asked his wife Alix in St Petersburg, showing her another telegram from Willy. 'What on earth does William mean pretending that it still depends on me whether war is averted or not!' Behind the friendliness of family gatherings lurked family quarrels, which were often played out in public. Drawing widely on previously unpublished documents, this is the extraordinary story of their overlapping lives, conducted in palaces of unimaginable opulence, surrounded by flattery and political intrigue. And through it runs the question: to what extent were the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar responsible for the outbreak of the war, and, as it turned out, for the end of autocratic monarchy?

The Three Emperors

Author : Miranda Carter
Publisher : ePenguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141019987
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Three Emperors written by Miranda Carter and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years before the First World War, the great European powers, Britain, Germany and Russia, were ruled by three cousins: George V, King-Emperor of England, the British Empire and India; Wilhelm II, the last Kaiser; and Nicholas II, the last Tsar. 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 which 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. The Three Emperors is a brilliant and sometimes hilarious portrait of three 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 of 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 it weaves through their stories a riveting account of the events that led to World War One, showing how the personal and the political interacted, sometimes to devastating effect. For all three men the war would be a disaster which destroyed for ever the illusion of their close family relationships, with any sense of peace and harmony shattered in a final coda of murder, betrayal and abdication.

The Race to Save the Romanovs

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250151236
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Race to Save the Romanovs written by Helen Rappaport and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of the Imperial Family was commemorated in 2018 by a huge ceremony attended by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. While the murders themselves have received major attention, what has never been investigated in detail are the various plots and plans behind the scenes to save the family—on the part of their royal relatives, other governments, and Russian monarchists loyal to the Tsar. Rappaport refutes the claim that the fault lies entirely with King George V, as has been the traditional view for the last century. The responsibility for failing the Romanovs must be equally shared. The question of asylum for the Tsar and his family was an extremely complicated issue that presented enormous political, logistical and geographical challenges at a time when Europe was still at war. Like a modern day detective, Helen Rappaport draws on new and never-before-seen sources from archives in the US, Russia, Spain and the UK, creating a powerful account of near misses and close calls with a heartbreaking conclusion. With its up-to-the-minute research, The Race to Save the Romanovs is sure to replace outdated classics as the final word on the fate of the Romanovs.

King George II and Queen Caroline

Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954485
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book King George II and Queen Caroline written by John Van der Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the last king to lead British troups into baffle and his able wife provides intriquing insight into 18th century war and politics.Often derided as the buffoon who "hated all boets and bainters", George II was fortunate to be served by Prime Ministers Sir Robert Walpole and William Pitt, and was wise enough to leave the business of government to them. His wife, generally regarded as the ablest of British queens between Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, used her influence in politics and patronage so that she and Walpole effectively ruled the kingdom between them. Her death in 1737 was seen as a national calamity. Illustrated throughout, this new biography provides a much-needed reevaluation of these monarchs and the times in which they ruled.

Twilight of Splendor

Author : Greg King
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047004439X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of Splendor written by Greg King and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the court of Britain's longest-reigning monarch Royalty and the Victorian era, with coverage of the people, pageantry, and power of Queen Victoria's court. Beginning with the Queen's 1897 Diamond Jubilee, this book describes her long reign. It paints a portrait of a unique ruler at the height of empire.

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752499289
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Kaiser Wilhelm II written by John Van der Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker and that of the English liberal gentleman.

George III's Children

Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750953829
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book George III's Children written by John Van der Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-01-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 12 August 1762, Queen Charlotte gave birth to her first child. Twenty-one years later, to the week, the 15th and youngest was born. All but two children survived to maturity. The eldest of King George III's children, who became Prince Regent and King George IV, is less remembered for his patronage of the arts than for his extravagance, and maltreatment of his wife Caroline. As Commander-in-Chief to the British army, the administrative qualities of Frederick, Duke of York are largely forgotten, while King William IV, usually dismissed as a figure of fun, brought a new affability to the monarchy which helped him through the storms engendered during the passage of the Great Reform Bill in 1832. The princesses, for many years victims of their parents' possessiveness, married late in life, if at all, and are passed off as non-entities. This objective portrayal of the royal family draws upon contemporary sources to lay to rest the gossip and exaggeration.

The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Author : Christina Croft
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781514759974
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II written by Christina Croft and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost a century after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Kaiser Wilhelm II is still viewed as either a warmonger or a madman, as the hundred-year-old propaganda posters remain fixed in the general consciousness. Was he, though, truly responsible for the catastrophe of the First World War, or was he in fact a convenient scapegoat, blamed for a conflict which he desperately tried to avoid?

Ekaterinburg

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099520095
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Ekaterinburg written by Helen Rappaport and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.

The Good Germans

Author : Catrine Clay
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474607896
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Good Germans written by Catrine Clay and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 20 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbours, and tried to work out what was really happening in the Reich, surrounded as they were by Nazi propaganda and fake news. They lived in constant fear. Yet many ordinary Germans found the courage to resist. Catrine Clay argues that it was a much greater number than was ever formally recorded. Her ground-breaking book focuses on six very different characters. They are not seen in isolation but as part of their families. Each experiences the momentous events of Nazi history as they unfold in their own small lives - Good Germans all.

Wilhelm II

Author : John C. G. Röhl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521844312
Total Pages : 1593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Wilhelm II written by John C. G. Röhl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 1593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final volume in acclaimed biography of Wilhelm II exploring his role in the origins of the First World War.

The End of the German Monarchy

Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the German Monarchy written by John Van der Kiste and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Free the Romanovs

Author : Coryne Hall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445681986
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book To Free the Romanovs written by Coryne Hall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murders but also the exciting escapes of the wider Romanov family - the Tsar’s mother, siblings and cousins. Did George V let his cousin the Tsar and his family die?

Labyrinths

Author : Catrine Clay
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062245155
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Labyrinths written by Catrine Clay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung’s complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement. Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the twentieth century dictated that a woman of Emma’s stature—one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland—travel to Paris to "finish" her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father’s wealthy business colleagues, Emma’s conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung. The son of a penniless pastor working as an assistant physician in an insane asylum, Jung dazzled Emma with his intelligence, confidence, and good looks. More important, he offered her freedom from the confines of a traditional haute-bourgeois life. But Emma did not know that Jung’s charisma masked a dark interior—fostered by a strange, isolated childhood and the sexual abuse he’d suffered as a boy—as well as a compulsive philandering that would threaten their marriage. Using letters, family interviews, and rich, never-before-published archival material, Catrine Clay illuminates the Jungs’ unorthodox marriage and explores how it shaped—and was shaped by—the scandalous new movement of psychoanalysis. Most important, Clay reveals how Carl Jung could never have achieved what he did without Emma supporting him through his private torments. The Emma that emerges in the pages of Labyrinths is a strong, brilliant woman, who, with her husband’s encouragement, becomes a successful analyst in her own right.