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Charles XII and the collapse of the Swedish Empire

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Freeport Books for Libraries Press 1969Description: xviii, 320 p. illus., map, plans, ports. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781331065845
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 948/.503BAI
Summary: THE present work has no pretention to be anything like an exhaustive biography of Charles XII.--a perfectly adequate treatment of so large and complex a subject would demand many volumes. But it does claim to at least suggest the lines on which such a biography should be written, it professes to present the leading facts of the heroic monarch's career in the light of the latest investigations and it endeavours to dissipate the many erroneous notions concerning "The Lion of the North" for which Voltaire's brilliant and attractive work, I have almost said romance, Histoire de Charles XII. is mainly responsible
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Book Book UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 948/.503BAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 002654

Reprint of the 1895 ed.

THE present work has no pretention to be anything like an exhaustive biography of Charles XII.--a perfectly adequate treatment of so large and complex a subject would demand many volumes. But it does claim to at least suggest the lines on which such a biography should be written, it professes to present the leading facts of the heroic monarch's career in the light of the latest investigations and it endeavours to dissipate the many erroneous notions concerning "The Lion of the North" for which Voltaire's brilliant and attractive work, I have almost said romance, Histoire de Charles XII. is mainly responsible

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