Books written by Robert K. Massie

  • Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
    Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

    176 “profound sorrow”: Kerr, 258. 176 “mean and contemptible slander”: Ibid. 176 “a national humiliation”: Ibid., 256. 176 “It was an awful wrench”: Goldrick, 155. 176 “up to the end”: Marder, II, 87. 177 “On one day”: Haldane, 302.

  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.

  • Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
    Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

    “The waves will mount higher”: Nichols, 17 “They are not my ministers”: Eyck, 315 “cease all direct ... Lee, I, 673 “He is a Satan”: Balfour, 265 “as an uncle treats a nephew”: Queen Victoria, I, 439 “discussions of this kind”: ibid., ...

  • Peter the Great: His Life and World
    Peter the Great: His Life and World

    Peter the Great: His Life and World

  • Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
    Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

    Illuminates the personal rivalries and ambitions behind World War I, and discusses kings, cabinet ministers, and military men

  • Peter the Great: His Life and World
    Peter the Great: His Life and World

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history—from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great ...

  • Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
    Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War

    The brilliant, definitive account of the naval arms race that made World War One inevitable.

  • The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
    The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

    Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists ...

  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    Catherine wrote her memoirs in French , and at least four translations have been published in English . ... 41 7 " Very early it was noticed " : Anthony , 27 8 " circumcision " : Ibid . , 31 8 " every night at dusk ” : Memoirs , 30 8 ...

  • Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
    Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the ...

  • The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
    The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

    When the book appeared, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was asked, “What about the Romanov rescue and those sensational documents?” Inimitably, the secretary replied, “That whole story is a lot of crap." Professor Richard Pipes of ...

  • Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
    Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the ...

  • Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
    Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the ...

  • Nicholas and Alexandra
    Nicholas and Alexandra

    A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra.Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers ...

  • Petru cel Mare. Viața și lumea lui
    Petru cel Mare. Viața și lumea lui

    ... de responsabilitățile la care nu făcea față, se prefăcea bolnav. Când Aleksei s-a întors din Germania în 1713, după anul lui de studiu la Dresda, Petru l-a întrebat ce a învățat despre geometrie și fortificații. Întrebarea l-a ...

  • Peter the Great: His Life and World
    Peter the Great: His Life and World

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history—from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great ...

  • Peter the Great: His Life and World
    Peter the Great: His Life and World

    Examines the notorious Russian ruler's background and accomplishments, details the armed conflicts during his reign, and scrutinizes his transformation of medieval Russia into modern Russia.

  • Peter the Great: His Life and World
    Peter the Great: His Life and World

    ... freezing countryside and then to steal Romny out from under them . When ... army to march . He himself set out first with the Guards , hoping to catch the ... farm animals died rigid in the fields . At Versailles , wine froze in the ...

  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    In this book, an eternally fascinating woman is returned to life. “[A] compelling portrait not just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood woman.”—Newsweek “An absorbing, satisfying biography.”—Los Angeles Times ...