{"product_id":"george-nicholas-and-wilhelm-three-royal-cousins-and-the-road-to-world-war-i-9781400079124","title":"George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough brilliant and often darkly comic portraits of these men and their lives, their foibles and obsessions, Miranda Carter delivers the tragicomic story of Europe's early twentieth-century aristocracy, a solipsistic world preposterously out of kilter with its times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiranda Carter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnthony Blunt: His Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Orwell Prize for political writing and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Award, and was chosen as one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's seven Best Books of 2002. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515081396498,"sku":"9781400079124","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_56562e95-8688-4c22-9ee7-d52a859edecc.jpg?v=1730997780","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/george-nicholas-and-wilhelm-three-royal-cousins-and-the-road-to-world-war-i-9781400079124","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}