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Frederick the Great - King of Prussia (Paperback)
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Frederick the Great - King of Prussia (Paperback)
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List price R584
Loot Price R523
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'Highly readable and deeply researched' - Andrew Roberts 'Masterful
... brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters
of modern European history' - Sunday Telegraph 'It is sure to be
the standard English-language account for many years. It instructs;
it entertains; and it surprises' - Philip Mansel, The Spectator
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the eighteenth
century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the
nineteenth. He was a force of nature, a ruthless, brilliant,
charismatic military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and
talent, a gifted composer, performer, poet and philosopher, and a
discerning patron of artists, architects and writers, most famously
Voltaire. From the very start of his reign he was an intensely
divisive figure - fascinating even to those who hated him. Tim
Blanning's brilliant new biography captures Frederick's vitality,
complexity and flawed genius better than any previous writer. He
also recreates a remarkable era, the last flowering of the old
regime that would be swept away almost immediately 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
immersion in the eighteenth century to present him in the round,
with new attention paid to his cultural self-fashioning, including
his sexuality. Frederick's spectre has hung over Germany ever
since, both as inspiration and warning - Blanning at last allows us
to understand him in his own time.
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