Miranda Carter

Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history

Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europe's failing international relations well...a highly readable and well-documented account

Absorbing. Carter has a good eye for a quote and an ability to bring various personalities to life. A convincing and considerable achievement

Carter's account of how an already dysfunctional family turned toxic is fresh and enjoyable...timely and welcome

Miranda Carter's story is full of vivid quotations...a romp though the palaces of Europe in their last decades before Armageddon

Well-paced, a thoroughly polished, professional piece of work. A macabre family saga

An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on the eve of catastrophe

Fascinating. Carter is a gifted storyteller and has written a very readable account

Carter's intelligent, entertainging and informative book folds dynastic and political narratives into a panoramic account of Europe's road to war

That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying. I haven't enjoyed a historical biography this much since Lytton Strachey's Victoria

Miranda Carter writes with lusty humour, has a fresh clarifying intelligence, and a sharp eye for telling details. This is traditional narrative history with a 21st-century zing. A real corker of a book

A highly original way of looking at the years that led up to 1914

Carter deftly interpolates history with psychobiography to provide a damning indictment of monarchy in all its forms

A depiction of bloated power and outsize personalities in which Carter picks apart the strutting absurdity of the last emperors on the eve of catastrophe

Takes what should have been a daunting subject and through sheer wit and narrative élan turns it into engaging drama. Carter has a notable gift for characterisation

Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin. 
 
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.

Miranda Carter

Praise for The Three Emperors

Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history

Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europe's failing international relations well...a highly readable and well-documented account

Absorbing. Carter has a good eye for a quote and an ability to bring various personalities to life. A convincing and considerable achievement

Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history

Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europe's failing international relations well...a highly readable and well-documented account

Absorbing. Carter has a good eye for a quote and an ability to bring various personalities to life. A convincing and considerable achievement

Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history

Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europe's failing international relations well...a highly readable and well-documented account

Absorbing. Carter has a good eye for a quote and an ability to bring various personalities to life. A convincing and considerable achievement

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