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In the decades prior to the First World-War, the truly amazing Western powers were dominated by several first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided during the last decades of dynastic Europe and the episode of the most destructive war the world had ever witnessed, a war that collection twentieth century Europe on-course to become the most chaotic region in the history of the world.Miranda Peterson utilizes the cousins’ communication and a number of historic resources to inform the tragicomic tale of the small, glistening, solipsistic world that was frequently preposterously out-of kilter using its occasions, battling in which to stay order of politics and world events as history overtook it. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm is just a amazing and occasionally darkly amusing face of those men—damaged, egotistical Wilhelm; peaceful, persistent Nicholas; and nervous, dutiful George—and their mistakes, lifestyles and obsessions, from fits to outfits to stamp collecting. It's also living with clean, delicate pictures of other common numbers: King Victoria—grandmother to 2 of these, grandma-in-law to the third—whose conservatism and intimidation infatuation with household left a dangerous legacy; and Edward VII, the playboy “arch-vulgarian” who ended up to truly have a remarkable present for global relationships and the theatrics of mass politics.