The Race to Save the Romanovs

On 17th July 1918 the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous escapes. The former Tsar Nicholas his wife Alexandra and their children were all tragically gunned down in a blaze of bullets. On the 100-year-anniversary of these brutal murders historian Helen Rappaport set out to uncover why the Romanovs’ European royal relatives and the Allied governments failed to save them. In this incredible detective story Rappaport draws on an unprecedented range of unseen sources tracking down missing documents destroyed papers and covert plots to liberate the family by land sea and even sky.