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From the acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Glory and Frederick the Great, a riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony - and his catastrophic reign.Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2025 Shortlisted for...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2024-10-03

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Télécharger le livre :  George I (Penguin Monarchs)
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George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest.Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of good fortune to...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2017-12-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Frederick the Great
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SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-09-24

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Télécharger le livre :  The Triumph of Music
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Once musicians such as Mozart were little more than court servants; now they are multimillionaire superstars wielding more power than politicians. How did this extraordinary change come about? Tim Blanning's brilliantly enjoyable book examines how everything from the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-03-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Romantic Revolution
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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-12-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Pursuit of Glory
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'Let the nations rejoice: this history of Europe is a truly glorious book' John Adamson, Sunday TimesThe Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history – from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-02-28

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