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The three emperors : three cousins, three empires and the road to World War One / Miranda Carter
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Edité par Fig Tree. London, New York - 2009
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
pt. I. Three Childhoods, Three Countries. 1. Wilhelm: an experiment in perfection (1859). 2. George: coming second (1865). 3. Nicholas: a diamond-studded ivory tower (1868). pt. II. Family Ties, Imperial Contests. 4. Wilhelm emperor (1888-90). 5. Young men in love (1891-4). 6. Wilhelm Anglophile (1891-5). 7. Perfidious Muscovy (1895-7). 8. Behind the wall (1893-1904). 9. Imperial imperatives (1898-1901). pt. III. A Bright New Century. 10. fourth emperor (1901-4). 11. Unintended consequences (1904-5). 12. Continental shifts (1906-8). 13. A Balkan crisis (1908-9). 14. Edward's mantle (1910-11). 15. Celebrations and warnings (1911-14). 16. July 1914. pt. IV. Armageddon. 17. A war (1914-18).
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