Blood Against the Snows: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty

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Jonathan Gregson

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Pages: 240 (Paperback)

ISBN: 1841157856

Pub: Fourth Estate

Pub date: 2003-04-07

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 212646

Reader Reviews:

Sad tale ... (0/0 people found this helpful)

This book is an interesting read and like many other books about the Royal Massacre it begins by a introduction of Nepal's history and about who conquered Nepal and how Kathmandu came to be the Present day city. However, for some readers the beginning may drag on and readers may lose interest nevertheless the book increases to capture the readers interest as it goes on to explain more about what happened on the night of the massacre. -A beautiful tale of a Royal Family

fascinating insight into Nepalese royalty(deceased) (4/4 people found this helpful)

The wholesale slaughter of the Nepalese royal family in 2001 was probably the first time most people realised the family had ever existed in the first place.
This welcome book gives a detailed historical outline of the country and its royal family and recreates in the final section the bloody scene in the royal palace when the Crown Prince wiped out most of his living relatives.
The Crown Prince, yet another "distinguished" old Etonian, managed to set a gory record unlikely ever to be beaten when, in less than five minutes, he committed patricide, matricide, fratricide, sororicide, homicide, regicide, double deicide, and suicide. It will not, however, stand as an official record as he was on performance-enhancing drugs at the time.
Jonathan Gregson has written a well-researched and unique study.

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