George II (Penguin Monarchs)

Not Just a British Monarch

Norman Davies author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:27th May '21

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

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George II

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.

ISBN: 9780141978420

Dimensions: 186mm x 129mm x 23mm

Weight: 257g

208 pages