![]() ![]() ![]() This is the vivid history of this barely known, barely believable episode - a bloody tragedy of operatic proportions, the effects of which would be felt into the twentieth century and beyond. With a head full of impractical ideals - and a penchant for pomp and butterflies - the new 'emperor' was singularly ill-equipped for what lay in store. ![]() Instead, he walked into a bloody guerrilla war. Keen to spread his own interests abroad, the French emperor had promised Maximilian a hero's welcome. He had been lured into the voyage by a duplicitous Napoleon III. In his nonfiction account The Last Emperor of Mexico, Edward Shawcross relates this sweeping, multilayered story with a drive and panache worthy of the subject. In 1864, a young Austrian archduke by the name of Maximilian crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. A page-turning history of imperial hubris and nemesis, deceit and delusion, love and betrayal on a grand scale.' Sunday Times The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World ![]()
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