Augustus The Strong : A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning

Augustus The Strong : A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning'The 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 fox tossing, then this is the book for you' Dominic Sandbrook From the acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Glory and Frederick the Great, a riotous biography of the charismatic

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