TY - BOOK AU - Carter,Miranda AU - Carter,Miranda TI - George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: three royal cousins and the road to World War I SN - 1400043638 (hardcover) PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Edward KW - Nicholas KW - William KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Causes KW - Europe KW - Politics and government KW - 1871-1918 KW - Germany KW - History KW - William II, 1888-1918 KW - Great Britain KW - Edward VII, 1901-1910 KW - Russia KW - Nicholas II, 1894-1917 N1 - Originally published as: The three emperors : three cousins, three empires and the road to World War One. London : Fig Tree, 2009; Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-478) and index N2 - In the years before World War I, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II. Carter uses the cousins' correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell their tragicomic stories ER -