Downloadable audio file. Duration: 21:09:37. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Read by Rosalyn Landor.
Summary:
A story of the self-delusion of royalty: three monarchs who were also three first cousins--Wilhelm II, the last kaiser of Germany; George V of Britain; and Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia--and their mistaken belief, on the very brink of World War I, that their family connection could save Europe from itself. In the years before the war, Wilhelm, George, and Nicholas corresponded and wrote about each other in their diaries...
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