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Anthony Blunt - His Lives by Miranda Carter
Category: Biography
The first full biography of Anthony Blunt by a brilliant new biographer. Anthony Blunt, aesthete, communist, homosexual, M15 agent and Soviet mole, was Surveyor of the King's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute. Betrayed in 1963, he voted for Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Later that year, she ...Show more
GEORGE NICHOLAS AND WILHELM THREE ROYAL by Miranda Carter
Category: History
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 wor ...Show more
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
Category: Biography
Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin. As 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, ins ...Show more
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 dynas ...Show more
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