The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Biography for too long the British

for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth: a tale of poor unprepared Britain

surviving soldiers

a new generation of scholars has taken the investigation further back

interrelated family of crowned heads across Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany

and physical environment for anthropological work

The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Biography for too long the BritishDescription by Simon Sebag Montefiore Paperback The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the worlds surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war ruined principality into the worlds greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag