The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Biography The Panthéon de la Guerre

The Panthéon de la Guerre was a cyclorama the size of a football field

before going into battle in the Aisne- Marne Campaign

An eloquent witness and keen observer

for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth: a tale of poor unprepared Britain

The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Biography The Panthéon de la GuerreDescription by Simon Sebag Montefiore Paperback The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the worlds surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war ruined principality into the worlds greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag