Frederick the Great : King of Prussia / Tim Blanning.
Blanning, T. C. W., author.
2016
DD404 .B63 2016 (Mapit)
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Title Frederick the Great : King of Prussia / Tim Blanning.
Author Blanning, T. C. W., author.
Edition First U.S edition.
ISBN 9781400068128 (hardcover)
1400068126 (hardcover)
9780812988734 (electronic book)
0812988736 (electronic book)
Published New York : Random House, [2016]
Language English
Description xxvii, 653 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Call Number DD404 .B63 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 943/.053092 B
Summary Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th -- a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects and writers, most famously Voltaire. From early in his reign he was already a legendary figure -- fascinating even to those who hated him. Tim Blanning's biography recreates a remarkable era, a world which would be swept away shortly after Frederick's death by the French Revolution. Equally at home on the battlefield or in the music room at Frederick's extraordinary miniature palace of Sanssouci, Blanning draws on a lifetime's obsession with the 18th century to create a work that is in many ways the summation of all that he has learned in his own career. Frederick's spectre has hung over Germany ever since: an inspiration, a threat, an impossible ideal -- Blanning allows us to understand him in his own time.
Note "Originally published by Allen Lane in the UK"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-621) and index.
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The sufferings and greatness of Frederick
The inheritance
The breaking of Frederick
The making of Frederick
The making of Frederick (part two)
The masterful servant of the state
Culture
War and peace
Peace and war, 1745-1756
The Seven Years War: The first three campaigns
The Seven Years War: Disaster and survival
The Seven Years War: Why Frederick won
A long peace, a short war and double diplomacy
On the home front
Public and nation
Light and dark on the home front
Country and town
At court and at home
Conclusion: Death and transfiguration.

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