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Robert Service: The Last of the Tsars [2018] paperback FILMS Learners and lovers of Latin'A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar's life; brief, sharp, but laced with well judged feeling for the dramas of the time.' Catherine Merridale, Observer In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. In this