Carter, Miranda

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm : three royal cousins and the road to World War I - New York [N.Y.] Vintage Books 2011 - 498 p.

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 tragicomic stories.

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