George II (Penguin Monarchs): Not Just a British Monarch

by Norman Davies

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George II

George 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141978422
• ISBN13: 9780141978420
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.0"