- World war, 1914-1918, great britain, World war, 1914-1918, germany, World war, 1914-1918, naval operations, History
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Robert K. Massie
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 873
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Head of Zeus, Ballantine Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781781856697
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Born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1929, Robert K. Massie studied history at Yale University and Oxford University before embarking on" a highly successful career as writer and editor. Among the publications with which the author has been associated are Newsweek, USA-1, The Saturday Evening Post, The Reporter, Saturday Review, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review. Mr. Massie currently lives in Irvington, New York, with his wife and three children. The affliction of the author's young son by hemophilia inspired Mr. Massie's interest in the tragic drama of Nicholas and Alexandra, whose son also was stricken with the disease. This factor, as many reviewers have commented
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