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Cargando... George V: Never a Dull Momentpor Jane Ridley
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) susanbooks | Nov 20, 2023 |  The use of George V British Empire stamps in the endcover design is a nice touch given George's role in building up the Royal collection. At times there is perhaps a lack of imagination in the view taken of those who served the King, for example in the section at the end dealing with role played by Lord Dawson in the King's final hours. One criticism which could be levelled at the book is the somewhat casual handling of facts about WWI; for example, the Battle of Passchendaele casualty and death figures are confused. Ridley says at one place that the Russians had left the war in 1917, but in another says March 1918. More generally, subjective judgements about the conduct of the war are included with little or no supporting evidence. There is also some careless editing – for example, we are told in a throwaway line that Fred Dudley Ward was a 'glovemaker's daughter', making her sound quite working class, and only in a later chapter appears a detailed footnote on her rather different antecedents. Ms Ridley, or perhaps her editor, seems over-fond of the [sic] marking, with it appearing in often unncessary places. But these are quibbles. This is a book to read, enjoy and retain. (  ) ponsonby | Sep 20, 2022 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Biography & Autobiography.
History.
Nonfiction.
HTML: From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnership The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired. As his biographer Harold Nicolson famously put it, "he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps." The contrast between him and his flamboyant, hedonistic, playboy father Edward VII could hardly have been greater. However, though it lasted only a quarter-century, George's reign was immensely consequential. He faced a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of thirteen European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II during the Russian Revolution, and he facilitated the first Labour government. And, as Jane Ridley shows, the modern British monarchy would not exist without George; he reinvented the institution, allowing it to survive and thrive when its very existence seemed doomed. The status of the British monarchy today, she argues, is due in large part to him. How this supposedly limited man managed to steer the crown through so many perils and adapt an essentially Victorian institution to the twentieth century is a great story in itself. But this book is also a riveting portrait of a royal marriage and family life. Queen Mary played a pivotal role in the reign as well as being an important figure in her own right. Under the couple's stewardship, the crown emerged stronger than ever. George V founded the modern monarchy, and yet his disastrous quarrel with his eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, culminated in the existential crisis of the Abdication only months after his death. Jane Ridley has had unprecedented access to the archives, and for the first time is able to reassess in full the many myths associated with this crucial and dramatic time. She brings us a royal family and world not long vanished, and not so far from our own. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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