Frederick the Great: A Military History

Showalter’s depiction reframes Frederick the Great as a multidimensional ruler whose military and political innovations reshaped eighteenth-century Europe.

Frederick the Great is one of history’s most controversial leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia’s place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this eni...