Latest Eurohistory Book: The Grand Ducal House of Hesse (August 2020)

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It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce to you that our latest book, The Grand Ducal House of Hesse, has gone to print!

With more than 400 beautiful images, the 336 pages inside the book bring to life the story of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse (and by Rhine), from its beginnings as Landgraves to Hesse-Darmstadt.

The authors, Arturo E. Beéche and Ilana D. Miller, conducted extensive research in several countries and received assistance from several living descendants of of members of this now extinct dynasty.

The story is gripping, tragic, joyful, hopeful. Eurohistory hopes that readers will find the book as spellbinding as the authors intended it to be!


The Grand Ducal House of Hesse will be available for purchase through our usual outposts (Eurohistory, Hoogstraten Bookstore, Galignani, AMAZON) in the second half of August!

 

 

The books chapters include:

 

Author’s Note

 

The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the German Empire

 

Prologue

 

Chapter I: The Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt 

 

Chapter II: A New Grand Duchy: Ludwig I and Ludwig II

 

Chapter III: Grand Duke Ludwig III

 

Chapter IV: Darmstadt & Windsor: Ludwig IV and the English Connections – tragedy and single parenthood

 

Chapter V: The Battenbergs

 

Chapter VI: The Greek-Battenberg Alliance

 

Chapter VII: Tragedy, World War, Turmoil, and Survival

 

Chapter VIII: The Next Generation Settles Down and Tragedy Strikes Again

 

Chapter IX: The Mountbatten-Windsor Connection

 

Chapter X: The End of an Ancient Line

 

Chapter XI: The Women of Darmstadt

 

Epilogue

 

Family Trees

 

 

Endnotes

 

Bibliography

 

 Index