Near fine condition.Hodder & Stoughton,1992.First edition.Dark blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks on the cover) with Dj(some creases,nicks and scratch on the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with a map inside the front and back cover,b/w photos.Nice and clean pages as new with light shelf wear on the outer edges,a couple of small creases and nicks on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book with light shelf weear.428pp including Note on dates,select bibliography,select chronology,index.Price un-clipped.Heavy book. This is another paragraph Product Description: Edvard Radzinki, the leading Russian playwright, offers a portrait of Nicholas and Alexandra's marriage and an account of the final days of the Russian royal family's arrest, imprisonment and regicide. The opening of long-closed archives has allowed the author to make discoveries and reach new and revealing conclusions. His hitherto uptapped sources include three participants in the shooting, Radzinki reveals Lenin's role in the execution and has seen the actual telegram in which the order for the murder was given and there is the outstanding question: were the Tsarina and the daughters allowed to escape?