When the Sun Never Set
Größing, Sigrid-Maria
224 pages with numerous illustrations, four-colour throughout
When the Sun Never Set
Stories from European history
An empire in which the sun never sets – that was the goal of Emperor Charles V, and he succeeded in realising his dream. The tales of this bestselling author are just as diverse and colourful as the emperor’s multinational state. In her latest collection of historic stories, Sigrid-Maria Größing once again provides a glimpse into the history of European nobility. With gripping narrative and a multitude of information, she manages to show the bigger picture of European history in a comprehensive way. Among many others, she tells anecdotes of the life at the court of King Henry VIII and his six wives, illuminates the love story of Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and describes the fate of Louis XIV, the Sun King, in an equally fascinating and moving episode. With great attention to detail, the successful author creates miniatures of Europe’s rulers, their great moments in history, their private times of happiness, as well as tragic events and gives us an understanding of history in a very unique way.
Sigrid-Maria Größing, PhD, born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg in Bavaria, Germany, studied German and history and has a PhD in philosophy. Since 1990, she has been working as a freelance writer and has so far published 18 books – most of them on the history of the Habsburg dynasty.
An empire in which the sun never sets – that was the goal of Emperor Charles V, and he succeeded in realising his dream. The tales of this bestselling author are just as diverse and colourful as the emperor’s multinational state. In her latest collection of historic stories, Sigrid-Maria Größing once again provides a glimpse into the history of European nobility. With gripping narrative and a multitude of information, she manages to show the bigger picture of European history in a comprehensive way. Among many others, she tells anecdotes of the life at the court of King Henry VIII and his six wives, illuminates the love story of Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and describes the fate of Louis XIV, the Sun King, in an equally fascinating and moving episode. With great attention to detail, the successful author creates miniatures of Europe’s rulers, their great moments in history, their private times of happiness, as well as tragic events and gives us an understanding of history in a very unique way.
Sigrid-Maria Größing, PhD, born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg in Bavaria, Germany, studied German and history and has a PhD in philosophy. Since 1990, she has been working as a freelance writer and has so far published 18 books – most of them on the history of the Habsburg dynasty.
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