George Ii
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few monarchs in British history have been so persistently misunderstood as George II, a king who reigned for thirty-three turbulent years yet has long languished in the shadow of more celebrated predecessors and successors. Charles Chenevix Trench's authoritative biography restores the man to his full historical stature, chronicling the life of a king who fought personally at Dettingen — the last British monarch to do so — presided over the War of Austrian Succession, and navigated the treacherous political currents of a Hanoverian court riven by factional intrigue and family hostility. Trench writes with a scholar's rigour and a storyteller's flair, presenting George not as the dull, irascible figure of popular caricature but as a complex, courageous, and often misread ruler whose reign shaped the very contours of the British Empire. The book illuminates the powerful influence of Queen Caroline, the bitter rivalry with his son Frederick, and the towering ministerial genius of Robert Walpole — figures whose ambitions and loyalties defined an era. A deeply researched and compulsively readable account, George II leaves one wondering how history allowed so consequential a reign to be so thoroughly overlooked.
Author: Charles Chenevix Trench
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few monarchs in British history have been so persistently misunderstood as George II, a king who reigned for thirty-three turbulent years yet has long languished in the shadow of more celebrated predecessors and successors. Charles Chenevix Trench's authoritative biography restores the man to his full historical stature, chronicling the life of a king who fought personally at Dettingen — the last British monarch to do so — presided over the War of Austrian Succession, and navigated the treacherous political currents of a Hanoverian court riven by factional intrigue and family hostility. Trench writes with a scholar's rigour and a storyteller's flair, presenting George not as the dull, irascible figure of popular caricature but as a complex, courageous, and often misread ruler whose reign shaped the very contours of the British Empire. The book illuminates the powerful influence of Queen Caroline, the bitter rivalry with his son Frederick, and the towering ministerial genius of Robert Walpole — figures whose ambitions and loyalties defined an era. A deeply researched and compulsively readable account, George II leaves one wondering how history allowed so consequential a reign to be so thoroughly overlooked.