George II (Penguin Monarchs)

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ISBN-10:

0141978422

ISBN-13:

9780141978420

Author(s): Davies, Norman
Released: Aug 01, 2021
Publisher: Allen Lane.
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
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Description:

George II, the King-Elector, was as German as he was British - as explained by one of the world's most celebrated historians

George 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.


























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