Frederick the Great

Name: Frederick the Great
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ISBN: 9781590176238

ISBN-10: 1590176235

ISBN-13: 9781590176238

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Authors: Nancy Mitford, Liesl Schillinger

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The Prussian king Frederick II (1712–1786) is perhaps best known for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), a feat that allowed Great Britain to limit its engagement on the Continent and emerge as the world’s leading colonial power, as summed up in William Pitt’s famous claim that “America was won in Germany.”But in his youth, tormented by a spectacularly cruel and dyspeptic father, this future military genius was drawn first to the flute and French poetry, and throughout his long life counted nothing more important than the company of good friends and great wits. This was…

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List price: $19.95
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 7/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.97" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgements



The Father



The Unhappy Family



Escape



Rehabilitation



Marriage



Out of a Rembrandt into a Watteau



The Throne



Check to the Queen of Hungary



Diplomats' Nightmare



The King's Friends



The Second Silesian War



Thoughts on Warfare



Sans Souci



The Poet



The Reversal of Alliances



The Seven Years' War



Ma Sï¿½ur de Bayreuth



The Great Frederick



Man is made to work



The Uncle of Germany



The Potato War



Winter


Sources


Index