- Kings and rulers, Biography, History, Foreign relations
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Classical in form, cool, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Neal Ascherson
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- Granta Books, Allen and Unwin, Doubleday
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781862072909
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“A BELGIAN KING does not enter upon his reign by coronation.”
Charles Neal Ascherson (born 5 October 1932) is a Scottish journalist and writer. In his youth he fought for the British in the Malayan Emergency. He has been described by Radio Prague as "one of Britain's leading experts on central and eastern Europe". Ascherson is the author of several books on the history of Poland and Ukraine. His work has appeared in *The Guardian* and *The New York Review of Books.*
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