Frederick the Great
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Plume
Published: November 30, 1984
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780525481478
Subjects: General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Bargain Books; Biography / Autobiography
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.