Social sciences

摘要

Carter (Anthony Blunt: His Lives) offers a multiple biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, and King George V-not to mention George's father, Edward VII-in a heavily researched effort to prove that the relationship among the German, Russian, and British cousins was largely responsible for the advent of World War I. Carter is insightful about the different personalities of her protagonists, with Wilhelm in particular coming across as an utter lunatic and boor with a tendency toward Anglophilia that ebbed and flowed.