Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov DynastyDescription by Robert K. Massie Paperback In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs lives: Nicholass political navet, Alexandras obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexiss brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and

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including “The Angels of Mons: Absolutely My Last Word on the Subject” and “The Return of the Angels: This Time They Are at Ypres

unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known

to the new lines behind La Bassée

this dramatic

having made the greatest sacrifice of all in perhaps the last noble war

Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable

What they discover could save millions of lives if another common flu virus suddenly turns into a killer

the fierce advocate of naval reform who entered into the arms race with Germany that pushed the continent toward confrontation on land and sea

whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of home-front volunteers

In the midst of all this death

and persistence