RUSI Journal, June 1st, 2000
FREDERICK THE GREAT by General Sir David Fraser, (Allen Lane, 1999), L25.00, 704 pages On the eve of the 300th anniversary of Prussia in 2001 the highly respected historian and author, General Sir David Fraser, has published a magnificent biography of the legendary Prussian King Frederick the Great. He has presented us with a most scholarly and colourful history of the European 18th century in which Frederick and Voltaire were the outstanding intellectual ornaments of the Enlightenment. Frederick the Great, so many-sided a man, had and has continued to have plenty of hostile critics. During...
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