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Wars of Frederick the Great, The Dennis E. Showalter

Wars of Frederick the Great, The By Dennis E. Showalter

Wars of Frederick the Great, The by Dennis E. Showalter


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The campaigns of Frederick the Great were a watershed in the history of Europe. They inaugurated a new pattern - of total war for limited objectives - that was to endure until 1916. Frederick's battles were designed to convince his adversaries of the wisdom of making and keeping peace.

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Wars of Frederick the Great, The Summary

Wars of Frederick the Great, The by Dennis E. Showalter

The campaigns of Frederick the Great were more than the apogee of eighteenth-century warfare: as Dennis Showalter argues in this stimulating book which sets them in their full context, they were a watershed in the history of Europe. They inaugurated a new pattern -- of total war for limited objectives -- that was to endure until 1916. Frederick's battles were designed to convince his adversaries of the wisdom not just of making peace but also of keeping it; for him, victory in the field was the means to the more enduring victory of a successful negotiation, and, as such, his wars prefigure those of Napoleon.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. Matrices and probabilities. 2. Wars for Silesia: 1740-45. 3. Breathing space and renewals. 4. Prussia ascendant. 5. Years of balance: 1758-59. 6. Prussia contra Europe: 1760-63. 7. Coda: 1763-86, Reflections. Notes on sources Index

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CIN0582062594G
9780582062597
0582062594
Wars of Frederick the Great, The by Dennis E. Showalter
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
1995-11-13
384
N/A
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