Prussian Chic
James Sheehan: Frederick the Great, 28 July 2016
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
by Tim Blanning.
Allen Lane, 648 pp., £30, September 2015,978 1 84614 182 9 Show More
by Tim Blanning.
Allen Lane, 648 pp., £30, September 2015,
“... Germany’s leading power. In this national epic Frederick had always had a starring role, which Tim Blanning brilliantly analyses in his deeply learned and fluently written biography. Frederick’s claims to greatness began almost as soon as he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740. Two years later, Voltaire, an early admirer and sometime ... ”
