After Frederick William I’s death in 1740, his son and successor took the throne and surprisingly went on to achieve stunning military victories, consolidating Prussia’s role as a great ...

Frederick, Crown Prince of Brandenburg-Prussia will become a warrior king and an enlightened monarch that the likes of ...

After The Battle of Mollwitz Frederick, had learned a great deal about war and the people of the world were enthralled by ...

W.F. Reddaway says in his book in the Heroes of the Nations Series on "Frederick the Great, and the Rise of Prussia," that he deserved the title because of his home administration rather than his ...

Frederick the Great is judged by many historians to have been an enlightened despot. Geoffrey Roberts on an impressive, comprehensive new biography by Tim Blanning. N the ‘great man’ pantheon ...

Historian Christopher Clark re-examines the life and achievements of one of Germany's most colourful and controversial leaders, the Prussian king Frederick the Great. The Prussian king Frederick ...

Cambridge scholar Tim Blanning’s “Frederick the Great,” a lengthy but never lagging ... into the ruthless soldier king who established Prussia as a major European power.

One of the most curious of these events happened in Prussia, a precursor to modern-day Germany, where it's leader Frederick the Great banned coffee by decree in 1777. And he did it for a reason that ...

Greg Jenner is joined by special guests Stephen Fry and Dr Bodie Ashton as they travel back to 18th-century Prussia and look at the life of Frederick the Great. Show more Greg Jenner is joined by ...

Frederick the Great had a brute of a father ... possibly his lover - being beheaded in front of his eyes. King of Prussia from 1740, Frederick was also a musician, a composer, a writer and ...