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Frederick The Great Book
The 18th-century Prussian monarch Frederick the Great continues to divide opinion. For some he remains a model king, politically talented and culturally engaged, "a man", his friend Voltaire said, "who gives battle as readily as he writes an opera ... who has written more books than any of his contemporary princes has sired bastards." For others, though, he was a militaristic absolute monarch, the first example of what we could later come to think of as a distinctively German phenomenon, the fascist "führer". Giles MacDonogh's superb biography manages to steer a line between these extremes, and to explore a complex and fascinating figure. Around such a character myriad legends accrue, and MacDonogh examines them all dispassionately and penetratingly, from Frederick's philosophical ideas … read more...
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