The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to

As cousins, George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends – but they happened also to rule Europe´s three most powerful states. This potent combination together with their own destructive personalities – petty, insecure, bullying, absurdly obsessive (stamp collecting, uniforms) – led not only to their own dramatic fallouts and falls from grace, but also to the outbreak of the First World War.
Miranda Carter´s riveting account of how three men who should have known better helped bring down an entire world is a gripping story of abdication, betrayal and murder.