Product Description: This volume carries on the history of the House of Rothschild as revealed by the relevant documents from 1830 up to the peace that concluded the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. In the writing of this volume, the Rothschild families have brought no influence of any kind to bear; the author's aim has been to portray without prejudice or partiality the tremendous part that the House played in the events of the nineteenth century...read more

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Baron Wrangel's memoirs disclose changing conditions of life in Russia from 1847 to 1920. He describes his own life from his childhood on his father's estate (when "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was rudely received by the serf-owning nobles of Russia) through the fall of the monarchy and the coming of the Bolshevik reign of terror.