2021, ISBN: 9780141978420

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George IIGeorge II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first ti… Mehr…

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George IIGeorge II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military and cultural - all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed - as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle, at Dettingen in 1744. Books Norman Davies|Hardback|Penguin Books Ltd|27/05/2021, Penguin Books Ltd<

ISBN: 9780141978420

George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was 31. He had a terrible relationship with his father George I, which was … Mehr…

George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was 31. He had a terrible relationship with his father George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military and cultural - all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed - as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle at Dettingen in 1744. Trade Books>Hardcover>Biography>British Royalty Biog,Memoir>British Royal Biog,Memoir, Penguin Random House UK Core >2<

2021, ISBN: 9780141978420

Allen Lane, Hardcover, 208 Seiten, Publiziert: 2021-05-27T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780141978420, 0.26 kg, Verkaufsrang: 415058, Books Global Store, Special Feature… Mehr…

Allen Lane, Hardcover, 208 Seiten, Publiziert: 2021-05-27T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780141978420, 0.26 kg, Verkaufsrang: 415058, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, Military, Britain, Historical, Biography, Subjects, Europe, Countries & Regions, Royalty, Georgian & Regency Britain, Great Britain, History, Eastern, Allen Lane, 2021<