The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel

“Douglas Brunt has the gift of writing histories that read like novels.” —National Review “Douglas Brunt tells the extraordinary story of the Nobels—not Alfred of the Nobel Prize but his brother Ludvig and nephew Emanuel, who built one of the world’s greatest industrial enterprises of the nineteenth century and a giant oil company that rivaled Rockefeller’s—only to see it all shattered in their fatal collision with Joseph Stalin and the Russian Revolution. A haunting elegy for a very different Russia that might have been.” —Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power and The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations “This true international family saga should be a movie - and taught in schools!” —Zibby Owens “Bravo. [A] fascinating dynastic saga of the great prizes of the West: power, dynamite, and oil. Gripping.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity “Brunt brings Nobel back to life in this excellent story. There is a sense in Brunt’s writing that he is having so much fun putting this narrative together. It is infectious.” —Brendan Dowd, History Nerds United “A brilliant epic about Edwardian industry and infamy. Brunt paints a thrilling picture of another overlooked titan. In his hands, Emanuel Nobel’s life at the heart of the Romanov empire reads like a political thriller. I could not put this book down.” —Gareth Russell, author of The Six Loves of James I “Before Alfred Nobel created his prize, his father was siring the richest family in Czarist Russia. Well-deserved attention to a little-known slice of history.” —Kirkus

Douglas Brunt is the New York Times bestselling author of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel and The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel, and host of the top-rated SiriusXM author podcast Dedicated with Doug Brunt. A Philadelphia native, he lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children.

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