George II Not Just a British Monarch - Penguin Monarchs

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George IIGeorge 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
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Allen Lane
Published date:	27 May 2021
DEWEY:	941.072092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	160
Weight:	234g
Height:	128mm
Width:	190mm
Spine width:	26mm

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