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Shattered Crowns: The Scapegoats

Shattered Crowns: The Scapegoats

Croft, Christina

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 1463755643
ISBN13: 9781463755645
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 26 2011
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On 28th June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife, Sophie Chotek, were shot dead in broad daylight on a crowded street in Sarajevo. The murder of a relatively unknown archduke in a remote Bosnian city might well have been quickly forgotten were it not for the fact that this seemingly minor event ignited a spark that would explode into one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. Within four years, over sixteen million people from one hundred countries would lie dead on the battlefields of the First World War. By 1914, through a series of alliances, Europe was largely divided into two separate camps: the Triple Alliance of the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, and the Triple Entente of Russia, Britain and France. The clashing of these empires has often led to the First World War being described as an Imperial War and their emperors have provided a convenient scapegoat on which to pin the blame for the consequent slaughter. In reality, however, not one of these monarchs - who were close friends and cousins - had any desire for war and each of them struggled desperately to maintain peace. All our cousins, wrote Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, were more like brothers and sisters than mere blood relations. This novel - the first in a trilogy following the royalties of Europe from 1913 to 1918 - tells the story of the year leading up to the outbreak of war and the very human tragedy that befell those cousins and friends; a tragedy which might have been deliberately engineered to lead to the destruction of the Russian, Austrian and German monarchies.

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