Books written by Miranda Carter
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
PAIN Full IMP Ression: Lee, 2, p. 302. These suspicions: Kokovtsov, p. 46. LURING: N to E, 24 Oct. 1904, Lee, 2, p. 301. English perfidy . . . to Me: Hardinge, p. 108. If They imagiNED: G to E, 24 Oct. 1904, Nicolson, King George, p.
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
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 ...
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The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One
The Three Emperors by Miranda Carter is the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.
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The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One
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...
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives
When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Director of...
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The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One
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 ...
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives
Anthony Blunt, aesthete, communist, homosexual, MI5 agent, and Soviet mole, also made an enormous contribution to the establishment of art history as Director of the Courtald Institute.
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Cei trei împăraţi: trei veri, trei imperii şi drumul către Primul Război Mondial
... legătură magică, unindu-l cu toti ceilalti unsi. Era o taină mitică, supranaturală... frătia mistică a monarhilor era sorocită de divinitate” 38 . Problema era că, într-o mai mare măsură ca oricând înainte, monarhii – inclusiv Wilhelm ...
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives
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.
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De ondergang van het oude Europa
... wereld wilde verbeteren, dat zijn regering dan de economie moest verbeteren door middel van industriële ontwikkeling, spoorwegen en nieuwe markten. Er was niets milds of hoffelijks aan hem, hij was cynisch, manipulerend en vaak grof ...