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R. Nisbet Bain
Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire [EPUB ebook]

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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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语言英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9781518336676 ● 文件大小 2.0 MB ● 出版者 Perennial Press ● 发布时间 2018 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6174508 ● 复制保护无

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