Augustus The Strong by Tim Blanning
Augustus The Strong by Tim Blanning
SKU: B9781802066418 • Barcode: 9781802066418

Augustus The Strong

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Biography: historical, political and military
  • Genre / subject: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
  • Author: Tim Blanning
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Augustus The Strong by Tim Blanning is a biography for adult readers.

A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign. Augustus is one of the great what-ifs 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. Tim Blanning's 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.

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