The Rothschilds. A Family of Fortune

London England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. Hardback. First Edition. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Wear to top edge of D/J. Browning to spine of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Little did Napoleon suspect, when he invaded the principality of Hesse-Cassel in the autumn of 1806, that his action would foster the establishment of an empire which not only would grow stronger as his own waned but control the strings of Europe for over a century. The empire had been founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a tall, gentle Jew from the ghetto at Frankfurt, a second-hand dealwer with an interest in old coins, five talented sons and a dynastic dream. By the early 1820s his dream had become reality and his name was on its way to becoming a household word, synonymous with immense wealth, shrewdness and power. Contents: The Jew and the Prince. The Rothschilds and Napoleon. Five Brothers in Five Capitals. Uneasy Times. Supremacy. The Challenge. Victorian High Noon. Magnificent Brothers. End of an Era. The Years Between. The Second World War. The Rothschild Today: The Bankers. The Rothschilds Today: The Others. Family Tree. Notes. Index. Illustrated. 304 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback.