![]() ![]() “Devouring Edward Shawcross’s gripping book set in the 1860s, I was screaming at the hapless Austrian Archduke Maximilian: ‘Don’t do it!’ … is an eloquent writer, good at showing both sides of an argument.” - Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Daily Mail This is a page-turning history of imperial hubris and nemesis, deceit and delusion, love and betrayal on a grand scale, written in an easy, lucid style.” - Justin Marozzi, The Sunday Times “Edward Shawcross, a historian and first-time author, has a terrific story to tell here and he tackles it with real brio and narrative punch. “Here is a well-researched, ably written, consistently interesting, and mercifully short book that deserves reading.”- New Criterion “Shawcross… is especially good at describing the cultural gulf between the imperial couple and their subjects and their adopted realm… owerfully and authoritatively, he places an episode often dismissed as an ego-driven historical absurdity within the deeper context of Mexico’s history…This is history as at once both tragedy and farce.” - Paul Lay, The Times, Book of the Week (UK) ![]()
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