The Fall of the Dynasties
Edmond Taylor
Hardcover
(Dorset Pr, June 1, 1990)
The Fall of the Dynasties covers the period from 1905-1922, when the four ruling houses (the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman and Romanov) crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and old boundaries. WWI was precipitated by their decay, and their splintered, baroque rubble proved to be a treacherous base for the new nations that emerged from the war.