Greg King Libri

Chi era veramente Ludwig di Wittelsbach, re Luigi II di Baviera? Greg King ripercorre la vita di questo enigmatico personaggio: dall'infanzia all'ascesa al trono a soli diciannove anni, alla deposizione dopo la creazione dell'impero tedesco, ai rapporti con Bismarck, alla passione per ogni forma d'arte, all'amicizia con Wagner che ammirò e protesse, all'amore per la cugina Sissi, alla tragica fine nel lago di Starnberg. E cerca di far luce sui fattori che ne determinarono l'infermità mentale: la vena di follia dei Wittelsbach, la rigida educazione familiare, il dramma della latente omosessualità, le delusioni avute da Wagner.

On August 9, 1969, actress Sharon Tate, her unborn son, and four others were brutally murdered in Los Angeles. This text explores the search for the killers, the sensational trials, and the history leading to their 30-year imprisonment.

"Long before the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, came the first scene-stealing American divorcée to win the heart of a British royal--and forever change the House of Windsor and the lineage of future kings..."--Back cover

The tragic story behind 'the shot that rang around the world' - the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife in Sarajevo in June 1914The tragic story behind 'the shot that rang round the world' - the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife in Sarajevo in June 1914

Praise for The Court of the Last Tsar"Any book by Greg King is a book to be kept and savored. He has not only given us a fresh, clear-eyed, and often startling new look at the life of the last Romanovs, but also lived up to the promise of his title. He has shown us how the whole enterprise worked, from Tsar Nicholas to his lowest cook and chambermaid. This book is a great work of scholarship--and a wonderful read."--Peter Kurth, author of Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra and Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson"A mammoth, monumental achievement. No other book captures the essence and the entire scope of life at the court of Nicholas II. It's a thoroughly enjoyable and encyclopedic masterpiece that will be a major source for historians and biographers for years to come."--Marlene A. Eilers, author of Queen Victoria's Descendants and publisher of Royal Book News"Greg King has truly written a tour de force. The book is extremely well researched, has over 100 illustrations and is, quite simply, marvelous."--Coryne Hall, author of Little Mother of Russia, Once a Grand Duchess, and Imperial Dancer"Greg King is emerging as one of the leading authorities in today's liveliest field of Russian studies, and this is a major contribution to the study of late Imperial Russia."--Joseph T. Fuhrmann, author of Rasputin and the editor of The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra

From the authors of The Assassination of the Archduke comes a book about a shocking murder-suicide that ushered in the end of the Habsburg monarchy that had dominated Europe for centuries.

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in this riveting new exploration of the murder trial of Leopold & Loeb.

A recreation of the death of Rasputin, following recent revelations from the police files of St Petersburg. On 16th December 1916, Rasputin visited the palace of the second richest man in Russia, Prince Felix Youssoupov. Leading a group of conspirators, the Prince apparently set out to murder him.

It was the love story of the century -- the king and the commoner. In December 1936, King Edward VIII renounced the throne to marry "the woman that I love", Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American. His love quickly became one of the twentieth century's most famous personalities. Until her death in 1986, she was a figure of intrigue and mystery, both admired and reviled.For years interest in her story has remained constant, resulting in a small library of books. All of these biographies share one quality: a thinly veiled animosity toward the subject. The Duchess of Windsor sifts the decades of rumor and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. The Duchess's hold over her husband, her alleged sexual secrets and experiences, the couple's bitter relationship with the British Royal Family, and their involvement with Hitler and the Third Reich are all fully examined. From her birth in Pennsylvania in 1896, during the Gilded Age, to her death in Paris in 1986, Greg King takes the reader through a world of privilege, palaces, titles, high society, and love to an accompaniment of hatreds, feuds, conspiracies, and lies. The cast of characters is vast: Lady Diana Cooper; Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West; Nancy Astor; Emerald Cunard; Noel Coward; Cecil Beaton; Lord and Lady Mountbatten; the Vanderbilts; Pamela Harriman; Adolf Hitler; Winston Churchill; and hundreds of others -- politicians and presidents, dictators and socialites. Using previously untapped sources, the author presents a complete and, for the first time, sympathetic portrait of the Duchess. Wild speculations -- about her past affairs, her domination of the duke, and her tragic and lonely end --are answered. Wrongly blamed for the abdication crisis, Wallis suffered years of hostility from the Royal Family and much of the world. The truth is infinitely more fascinating than the shallow, pathetic portrait previously painted.