Instead, Maximilian walked into a bloody guerrilla war - and with a headful of impractical ideals and a penchant for pomp and butterflies, the so-called new emperor was singularly unequipped for the task. Keen to spread his own interests abroad, the French emperor promised Maximilian a hero's welcome, which he would ensure with his own mighty military support. He had been convinced to do so by a duplicitous Napoleon III. This is history's judgement on the events surrounding the ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico, the young Austrian archduke who in 1864 crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. ' A madness without parallel since Don Quixote,' said a future French president. 'One of the most monstrous enterprises in the annals of international history,' said Karl Marx. A superbly entertaining and well-researched account that sets a new standard for histories of the doomed escapade.' Financial Times the attempt in the 1860s to establish a monarchy in Mexico under Maximilian, the Habsburg archduke who was the brother of Franz Joseph, emperor of Austria. 'Edward Shawcross's entertaining history explores one of the most reckless political and military adventures of the 19th century. 'The jaw-dropping tale of Mexico's Habsburg emperor is told with brio and narrative punch.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.' Sunday Times Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
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