Le sceptre et le sang | Jean des Cars

EAN : 9782262041106

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 400

Size : 140 x 225 mm

Voir la fiche produit

Of blood and sceptre

Jean des Cars

Release date : 30/10/2014

This is the story of how the European monarchies lived through the maelstrom of two world wars. Portraits, anecdotes, juggled alliances… For the 1st time, Jean Des Cars takes us to the heart of the Courts of Europe at war.

This is an essentially personal and human story of the families of the reigning dynasties during the two world wars, all of them inextricably involved in and often victims of the dramatic events that punctuated these two conflicts.
These families were often inter-related, which gave rise to additional dilemmas. La Guerre... This is an essentially personal and human story of the families of the reigning dynasties during the two world wars, all of them inextricably involved in and often victims of the dramatic events that punctuated these two conflicts.
These families were often inter-related, which gave rise to additional dilemmas. La Guerre des rois et des reines is an often dramatic and always vivid account of the years of conflict that crushed Europe and precipitated the fall of several dynasties (the Romanovs and Hapsburgs in 1918; the royal houses of Romania, Yugoslavia, and Savoy after 1945). What became of the sovereigns in the aftermath of each of these wars? Who managed to survive, either still on their thrones, exiled, banished, or having abdicated?
The double tragedy of the First and Second World Wars swept aside or definitively overwhelmed all the European monarchies, and through them, the power of the “old continent”.
In a succession of chronological chapters, each concentrating upon one family, Jean des Cars presents portraits of the monarchs and zeroes in on key moments and little known anecdotes, in a narrative of the “twilight of the kings” as it has never been told.

Read less

Voir la fiche produit

EAN : 9782262041106

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 400

Size : 140 x 225 mm

See the product page