By Greg King and Penny Wilson In The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, Greg King and Penny Wilson offer a fresh look at the legendary liner and her tragic fate. Andrea Doria represented the romance of travel, the possibility of new…
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: “A Living Testament to the Importance of Beauty in the Everyday World”
Tagged with: cruise liner, greg king, penny wilson, The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria
Posted in Military History, Modern History
Posted in Military History, Modern History
The Many Affairs of Crown Prince Rudolf
by Greg King and Penny Wilson On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate…
Tagged with: crown prince rudolf, European History, greg king, penny wilson, twilight of empire, vienna
Posted in Modern History
by Greg King and Penny Wilson On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate…
Posted in Modern History
Echoes of Mayerling: The Unlikely Career of Countess Marie Larisch
by Greg King and Penny Wilson By 1918, the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empires had collapsed into nothingness. Imperial families were stripped of their titles and relegated to the status of citizen; their laws and traditions were wiped away and—absent…
Tagged with: austria, countess larisch, European History, greg king, marie larisch, penny wilson, twilight of empire
Posted in Modern History
by Greg King and Penny Wilson By 1918, the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empires had collapsed into nothingness. Imperial families were stripped of their titles and relegated to the status of citizen; their laws and traditions were wiped away and—absent…
Posted in Modern History
Lessons from the Sinking of the Lusitania
by Greg King As epic human tragedy the story has everything: a great ocean liner; a glittering cast of millionaires, actresses, suffragettes and scandalous lovers; and a terrible disaster played out over eighteen brutal minutes. On the afternoon of May…
Tagged with: captain turner, cruise liner, cunard, great war, greg king, kaiser Wilhelm II, lusitania, titanic, torpedo, u-boat, walther schwieger, wwi
Posted in Military History, Modern History
by Greg King As epic human tragedy the story has everything: a great ocean liner; a glittering cast of millionaires, actresses, suffragettes and scandalous lovers; and a terrible disaster played out over eighteen brutal minutes. On the afternoon of May…
Posted in Military History, Modern History
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