Miranda Carter - George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (Audiobook)
Автор: Miranda Carter
Аудиокнига: George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Издательство: Vintage
Год: 2009
Формат: MP3
Размер: 293,7 МБ
Текст Озвучил: Rosalyn Landor
Язык: Английский
Время прослушивания: 21:14:00
Качество: 32 kbps
ISBN: 0307714497
Для сайта: audioknig.su
Описание: 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 20th-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.