George V: Never a Dull Moment
Jane Ridley
The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. However throughout his reign, the monarch navigated a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of thirteen European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II and he facilitated the first Labour government. How this supposedly limited man steered the Crown through so many perils is a gripping tale. With unprecedented access to the Royal archives, Jane Ridley has been able to reassess the many myths associated with this dramatic period for the first time.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN-13
- 9781448190737
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- British monarchyWorld War I20th-century royal history
Awards
- The Plutarch AwardShortlisted(2023)
If you liked George V: Never a Dull Moment, you could also like these
George V
Kenneth Rose
1 win · 8 score
Edward VIII
Frances Donaldson
1 win · 8 score
Gladstone 1875–1898
H. C. G. Matthew
1 win · 8 score
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Miranda Carter
0 wins · 3 score
Lloyd George, From Peace To War 1912–1916
John Grigg
1 win · 8 score
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
Jenny Uglow
0 wins · 4 score
Churchill: a Biography (about Winston Churchill)
Roy Jenkins
0 wins · 4 score
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
1 win · 5 score
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
Anna Whitelock
1 win · 5 score
Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941
Martin Gilbert
1 win · 8 score
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
Mary Soames
1 win · 8 score
Salisbury: Victorian Titan
Andrew Roberts
1 win · 8 score
The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany
John C. G. Rohl
1 win · 8 score
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. Wilson
1 win · 5 score
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography
Charles Moore
0 wins · 4 score
Similar Topics
My Experiences in the World War
John J. Pershing
1 win · 12 score
World War I
The Generation of 1914
Robert Wohl
1 win · 12 score
World War I
The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell
1 win · 12 score
World War I
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
1 win · 12 score
World War I
The Victory at Sea
William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
1 win · 12 score
World War I
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War
Tim Grady
1 win · 11 score
World War I
A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922
David Fromkin
0 wins · 8 score
World War IEdward VIII
Frances Donaldson
1 win · 8 score
British monarchyGeorge V
Kenneth Rose
1 win · 8 score
British monarchyLloyd George, From Peace To War 1912–1916
John Grigg
1 win · 8 score
World War I
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918
Alexander Watson
1 win · 8 score
World War I
The Eastern Front: 1914–17
Norman Stone
1 win · 8 score
World War I
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Adam Hochschild
0 wins · 7 score
World War I
Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing
Frank Vandiver
0 wins · 4 score
World War I
Days of Our Years
Pierre van Paassen
0 wins · 4 score
World War I