The wars of Frederick the Great
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The wars of Frederick the Great
(Modern wars in perspective)
Longman, 1996
- : pbk
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780582062597
Description
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.
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Index
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ISBN 9780582062603
Description
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; 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
- Matrices and probabilities
- wars for Silesia, 1740-45
- breathing space and renewlas
- Prussia ascendant
- years of balance, 1758-59
- Prussia contra Europe, 1760-63
- coda, 1763-86.
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