Cover of Frederick the Great

Book 1988

Frederick the Great

4.01 14 readers shelved it

Publisher
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Published
1988

Frederick the Great was born on 24 January 1712, the year of Denain, Louis XIV's final and victorious battle in the War of the Spanish Succession; when he died, seventy-four years later, people were discussing Marie Antoinette's diamond necklace.