Frederick the Great
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Published: September 12, 1988
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780241125885
Subjects: Biography: royalty
First sentence: 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.