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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Tim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (New York: Random House, 2016), 688 pp., $35.00. NAPOLEON SWIFTLY conquered Prussia in October 1806, inflicting crushing defeats at Jena and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...