![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Emperors: How Europe’s Rulers were destroyed by The First World War by Gareth RussellĪmberley Publishing, 2015, £9.99, 227pp, soft covers illustrated plus notes, bibliography and index. Select the department you want to search in. Here the causes of the Great War are writ large in an enlightening, if unchallenging, book. The Emperors: How Europe s Rulers Were Destroyed by The First World War : Russell, Gareth: : Books. Russell asserts that the fall of the monarchies destabilised Europe after ‘centuries of stability’. Once you start reading this book, it is so easy to see disaster lurking around the corner, particularly after 1870. None had recognised how industrialisation and urbanisation had changed the attitudes of the workers, many of whom had swapped agricultural life for the cities and, now, demanded greater rights. Russell’s work shows that these three nations lacked diplomatic ability and judgement. The Emperors: How Europes Rulers Were Destroyed by the First World War by Gareth Russell () Gareth Russell on. The Emperors, Gareth Russell’s first non-fiction book, tells of the protocols and administrations in the three autocratic monarchies Germany, Austria and Russia. Educated at Oxford University and Queens University, Belfast, Gareth Russell is a historian, novelist, and playwright. To understand how and why the First World War started it essential to understand how the regimes of the main empires involved operated. ![]()
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