Frederick the Great His Court and Times

• Author : Thomas Campbell
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 May 2022

• Author : Tim Blanning
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 29 March 2016

The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history Few figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered territories, a minor Germanic backwater. By the end of his reign, the much larger and consolidated Prussia ranked among the continent’s great powers. In this magisterial biography, award-winning historian Tim Blanning gives

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 May 2022

• Author : Peter G Tsouras
• Publisher : Greenhill Books
• Release : 18 May 2020

An authoritative compilation of military history quotes from 2000 BC to the present day. 'A massive compilation casting light not only upon the pain, suffering and sheer insanity of war, but also upon the unique comradeship and exhilaration of battle... this is a valuable addition to the literature of reference.' - The Spectator Peter Tsouras brings 4,000 years of military history to life through the words of more than 800 soldiers, commanders, military theorists and commentators on war. Quotes by diverse personalities –

• Author : Luise Mühlbach
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 May 1868

• Author : Lawrence Lee Hewitt,Thomas E. Schott
• Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
• Release : 25 June 2012

A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such acclaimed works as Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals, and a biography of Huey Long that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but he also mentored generations of students who became distinguished historians in their own right. In this collection, ten of those former students, along with one author greatly inspired by Williams’s example, offer incisive essays that honor

• Author : Frederick II
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 01 December 2020

The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the Great Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them. This edition of selected writings, the first to make a wide range of Frederick’s most important ideas available to a modern English readership, moves beyond traditional attempts to see his work only

• Author : Andrew Dickson White
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 05 April 2018

Reproduction of the original: Autobiography by Andrew Dickson White

• Author : Thomas Carlyle
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 25 March 2022

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.

• Author : Thomas Carlyle
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 May 1862

• Author : Friedrich Kapp
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 May 2022

This 1859 biography tells the life of an American Revolutionary War general.

• Author : Philip J. Haythornthwaite
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 May 2022

Only a few of even the most famous military commanders of history are worthy of the title great captain. They were a select band who made such an impact upon the art of war that their influence was evident for many generations, their names becoming almost legendary. Invincible Generals concerns five such commanders, whose careers stretched from the post-medieval world to the advent of modern warfare in the late nineteenth century. Included are: Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden Lion of

• Author : Harold C. Deutsch
• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• Release : 03 May 1974

Hitler and His Generals was first published in 1974. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The author, who told the story of second of four conspiratorial rounds in his earlier book The Conspiracy against Hitler in the Twilight War,describes here the situations and events leading up to the first round of conspiracy. The present volume deals with the virtual coup d'etat

• Author : Judith M. Barringer,Jeffrey M. Hurwit,Jerome Jordan Pollitt
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release : 01 August 2005

The late fifth century BC was the golden age of ancient Athens. Under the leadership of the renowned soldier-statesman Perikles, Athenians began rebuilding the Akropolis, where they created the still awe-inspiring Parthenon. Athenians also reached a zenith of artistic achievement in sculpture, vase painting, and architecture, which provided continuing inspiration for many succeeding generations. The specially commissioned essays in this volume offer a fresh, innovative panorama of the art, architecture, history, culture, and influence of Periklean Athens. Written by leading

• Author : Friedrich Wilhelm freiherr von Seydlitz
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 May 2022