Buy this book on-line PALMER, ALAN: : Frederick the GreatLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON/BCA,1974. ISBN 0297767704.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj. 8vo,231pp includes pictorial endpapers,colour frntis,100 b/w illustrations,20pp of colour plates,Further reading list,Illustrations list and Index.Title from the Great Lives series under the editorship of Elizabeth Longford.
Frederick the Great (1712-86),King of Prussia, was one of the most interesting and successful monarchs of all time,and yet few kings have remained so elusive.From his austere,unhappy childhood,when he was frequently beaten viciously by his boorish father,to the archetypal Philosopher-King which he became, excelling in wisdom,cultivating the arts, practising diplomacy,and waging warfare with equal brilliance,there are many questions which need to be answered.How did Frederick play off his greedy and grasping neighbours,so as to set them against each other? How was it that,in the course of his reign,he welded the fragmented little state of Prussia into one of the most formidable powers of Europe,thus laying the foundations for the unification of Germany? Genius,dedication and luck - these are three of the factors which were important to Frederick's career,and in this masterful study Alan Palmer balances them with the eye of a professional historian and shows how 19thC and 20thC historians and dictators have distorted the man to suit their own ends. But he also goes beyond the inscrutable persona Frederick gave the world - the philosopher sparkling with wit,the general who drove himself and his men as hard as they could take it - and looks at the face behind behind the hero's mask.We see the tragic unhappiness of a man cut off,by virtue of his position,from his fellow men,and feel poignantly the awesome loneliness that power can bring. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correctd shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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