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Nicholas and Alexandra
by Massie, Robert K
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Book Club Associates, London, 1971. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 575 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Mild tanning throughout. The dust jacket has been protected by a removable plastic cover. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges browned slightly. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the last days - and last rulers - of the Russian Empire. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of imperial Russia to tell the story of the decline and fall of the ruling Romanov family: Tsar Nicholas II's political naivete; his wife Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin; and their son Alexis's battle with haemophilia. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3546. .
Synopsis
Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His books include Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great: His Life and World (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography) , The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman .
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Details
- Seller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3546
- Title
- Nicholas and Alexandra
- Author
- Massie, Robert K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- BZDB137 history, biography, russia, revolution, lenin, communist, csar nicholas, 1917 History; Biography & Autobiography. Massie, Robert K Nicholas and Alexandra
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