Unlike the tragedy of the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster of the modern age. In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship, with Penny Wilson, St.In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner, including never-before-seen photos of the wreck today.Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs, St.Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age, with Penny Wilson, St.The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World, with Sue Woolmans, St.The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery, with Penny Wilson, 2010.A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs Astor in Gilded Age New York, 2008.Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year, 2007.
Gilded Prism: The Konstantinovichi Grand Dukes & the Last Years of the Romanov Dynasty, with Penny Wilson, 2006.The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II, 2006.The Fate of the Romanovs, co-authored with Penny Wilson, 2003.Sharon Tate and the Manson murders, 2000.The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson, 1999.The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Felix Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire, 1996.The Mad King: The Life and Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria, 1996.The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, 1994.Reviews Ī review in the Manhattan (Kansas) Mercury praised King's books about the sinking of the Andrea Doria and the Lusitania as works of historical non-fiction which provide the reader with a "clearer understanding of the causes" of these tragedies. Greg King (born 1964) is an American author, best known for his biographies of prominent historical figures.īorn in 1964, King first became interested in royal history, particularly the Romanov Dynasty, at the age of ten.
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