Augustus The Strong by Tim Blanning PAPERBACK 9781802066418
From the acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Glory and Frederick the Great, a riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18thcentury Poland and Saxony and his catastrophic reign. Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2025 Shortlisted for the 2025 Apollo Book of the Year AwardIts been a superb year for history but Augustus the Strong ranks up there with the very very best! I cant recommend it strongly enough Simon SebagMontefioreThe wonderful story of one of the worst monarchs in European history, told with enormous wit and scholarship by a supremely talented historian. If you have the slightest interest in Germans, Poles, porcelain, jewels, the Enlightenment, military disasters or the pleasures of foxtossing, then this is the book for you Dominic SandbrookAugustus is one of the great whatifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state a bulwark against the Russians and a block on Prussian expansion. Alas, there was no opportunity Augustus did not waste and no decision he did not get wrong. By the time of his death Poland was fatally damaged and would subsequently disappear as an independent state until the 20th century. Tim Blannings wonderfully entertaining and original new book is a study in failed statecraft, showing how a ruler can shape history as much by incompetence as brilliance. Augustuss posthumous sobriquet The Strong referred not to any political... | Tim Blanning Augustus The Strong : A Study in Artistic Greatness & Political
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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 18thcentury Poland and Saxony and his catastrophic reign. Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2025 Shortlisted for the 2025 Apollo Book of the Year AwardIts been a superb year for history but Augustus the Strong ranks up there with the very very best! I cant recommend it strongly enough Simon SebagMontefioreThe wonderful story of one of the worst monarchs in European history, told with enormous wit and scholarship by a supremely talented historian. If you have the slightest interest in Germans, Poles, porcelain, jewels, the Enlightenment, military disasters or the pleasures of foxtossing, then this is the book for you Dominic SandbrookAugustus is one of the great whatifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state a bulwark against the Russians and a block on Prussian expansion. Alas, there was no opportunity Augustus did not waste and no decision he did not get wrong. By the time of his death Poland was fatally damaged and would subsequently disappear as an independent state until the 20th century. Tim Blannings wonderfully entertaining and original new book is a study in failed statecraft, showing how a ruler can shape history as much by incompetence as brilliance. Augustuss posthumous sobriquet The Strong referred not to any political... | Tim Blanning Augustus The Strong : A Study in Artistic Greatness & Political
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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 18thcentury Poland and Saxony and his catastrophic reign. Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2025 Shortlisted for the 2025 Apollo Book of the Year AwardIts been a superb year for history but Augustus the Strong ranks up there with the very very best! I cant recommend it strongly enough Simon SebagMontefioreThe wonderful story of one of the worst monarchs in European history, told with enormous wit and scholarship by a supremely talented historian. If you have the slightest interest in Germans, Poles, porcelain, jewels, the Enlightenment, military disasters or the pleasures of foxtossing, then this is the book for you Dominic SandbrookAugustus is one of the great whatifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state a bulwark against the Russians and a block on Prussian expansion. Alas, there was no opportunity Augustus did not waste and no decision he did not get wrong. By the time of his death Poland was fatally damaged and would subsequently disappear as an independent state until the 20th century. Tim Blannings wonderfully entertaining and original new book is a study in failed statecraft, showing how a ruler can shape history as much by incompetence as brilliance. Augustuss posthumous sobriquet The Strong referred not to any political... | Tim Blanning Augustus The Strong : A Study in Artistic Greatness & Political
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format | uk-b format paperback |
Language | english |
type | book |
Color | multicolor |
Gender | unisex |
Size | 18 |
Brand | Tim Blanning |
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