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Described by the Duke of Wellington as "the most outstanding compound of ability, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy and good feeling that I ever before saw in a single character in my life", George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, later George IV, was an extremely controversial body. He courted both Whigs and Tories in his tries to determine the Regency during the "madness" of his daddy, George III. Scandalous liaisons with prostitutes and duchesses, and his "magic formula" marriage to the Catholic Mrs. Fitzherbert, examined his responsibility - to region and to family. Yet his support for overseas promotions against Napoleon, culminating in such ancient victories as Trafalgar and Waterloo, consolidated Britain's status as the pre-eminent world electric power amid the great social and monetary upheavals of the Industrial Trend. Drawing on an abundance of original accounts of life in Georgian Britain, Saul David has generated a masterly portrait - of your flamboyant, opportunistic, and influential body, and of a region in a period of great change. Saul David is Teacher of Warfare Studies at the University or college of Buckingham and the author of several critically-acclaimed history catalogs, including The Indian Mutiny: 1857 (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Armed forces Books), Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu Warfare of 1879 (a Waterstone's Navy History E book of the entire year) and, lately, Victoria's Wars: The Climb of Empire. Saul David also writes acclaimed historical fiction. Zulu Hart, the first in the George Hart series, was a best retailer in '09 2009, and the sequel, Hart of Empire, will be shared in August 2010. An experienced broadcaster, Saul David has offered and appeared in history programs for all the major TV stations and is a regular contributor to Radio 4.
