Philippe Bieler Knihy

Great War Special Agent, a history of the times: schemes of railway moguls; foreign railway adventures; steps towards WW1; final Eastern Front strategy; Russian interventions; plundering in Paris; fire at Smyrna; mingling with the famous: Prince Wilhelm, Queen Marie, Edward Grey, Ion Bratianu, Leon Trotsky, Kemal Ataturk, Lord Cowdray, Ian Fleming.

Philippe Bieler, born in 1933 and a member of the silent generation, was nonetheless raised by his outspoken mother and well-connected father to not only be seen but also heard. Fortune Favours a Bieler looks back on the past century as a period of luck and opportunity for those who would seize it.