Overview
Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War IIn the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its hear was a tragic love story. When Austrian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand married for love against the wishes of the emperor, he and his wife Sophie were humiliated and shunned, yet they remained devoted to each other and to their children. The two bullets fired in Sarajevo not only ended their love story, but also led to war and a century of conflict.Set against a backdrop of glittering privilege, The Assassination of the Archduke combines royal history, touching romance, and political murder in a moving portrait of the end of an era. One hundred years after the event, it offers the startling truth behind the Sarajevo assassinations, including Serbian complicity and examines rumors of conspiracy and official negligence. Events in Sarajevo also doomed the couple's children to lives of loss, exile, and the horrors of Nazi concentration camps, their plight echoing the horrors unleashed by their parents' deaths. Challenging a century of myth, The Assassination of the Archduke resonates as a very human story of love destroyed by murder, revolution, and war.
Full Product Details
Author: Greg King ,
Sue Woolmans
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.662kg
ISBN: 9781250000163
ISBN 10: 1250000165
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 03 September 2013
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p> Covers the subject so thoroughly and so honestly that this is almost certainly the last book that needs to be written. --Robert K. Massie, author of Nicholas and Alexandra on The Resurrection of the Romanovs<br><br> Wonderfully vivid...a worthy companion to Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar . -- Publishers Weekly on The Last Empress
Covers the subject so thoroughly and so honestly that this is almost certainly the last book that needs to be written. Robert K. Massie, author of Nicholas and Alexandra on The Resurrection of the Romanovs Wonderfully vivid a worthy companion to Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar. Publishers Weekly on The Last Empress
Covers the subject so thoroughly and so honestly that this is almost certainly the last book that needs to be written. --Robert K. Massie, author of Nicholas and Alexandra on The Resurrection of the Romanovs Wonderfully vivid...a worthy companion to Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar. -- Publishers Weekly on The Last Empress
Author Information
GREG KING is the author of eleven internationally published works of royal and social history, specializing in late Imperial Russia and Edwardian-era royalty, including The Fate of the Romanovs, The Court of the Last Tsar, and the UK bestseller The Duchess of Windsor. A frequent onscreen expert and commentator for historical documentaries, his work has appeared in Majesty Magazine, Royalty Magazine, Royalty Digest, and Atlantis Magazine.SUE WOOLMANS is a royal historian and writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications. With Paul Kulikovsky, great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas II's sister Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, she recently edited the Grand Duchess's memoirs, Twenty-Five Chapters of My Life. She is a sound engineer and lives in London.
