FERDINAND OF BULGARIA
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Ferdinand the Ambitious gazing from his Euxinograd Palace across the Black Sea towards Constantinople.
FERDINAND OF
BULGARIA
THE AMAZING CAREER OF
A SHODDY CZAR
By the Author of
“THE REAL KAISER”
LONDON: ANDREW MELROSE, LTD.
3 YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
1916
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
Introductory 9
I A Pot-house Prince 17
II The Training of a Traitor 27
III Learning the Ropes 37
IV The Man who would be King 47
V The Compleat Bachelor 55
VI The Broken-hearted Princess 65
VII An Apostate by Proxy 73
VIII The Butchered “Bismarck” 81
IX The Dead Hand 93
X Who are the Bulgarians? 105
XI Ferdinand and his Creatures 115
XII Ferdinand the Feminine 125
XIII Ferdinand and the Bulgarians 135
XIV Ferdinand the Ambitious 147
XV Ferdinand the Futile 157
XVI Ferdinand the Frenchman 167
XVII Ferdinand the Faithless 177
XVIII Ferdinand the Hun 187
XIX Ferdinand the Czar 197
XX Ferdinand and the Balkan League 207
XXI Ferdinand the Martyr 217
XXII Ferdinand in Retirement 227
XXIII Ferdinand the False 237
XXIV Kultur in Bulgaria 247
XXV Ferdinand and the Farmer 255
XXVI Ferdinand as War Lord 263
XXVII Ferdinand in Extremis 273
INTRODUCTORY