Last week we looked at Prussia’s Soldier King, Frederick Wilhelm I, and what he meant for Prussian history. As he ascended to ...

It is always a pleasure to review a well-written book on an important subject. Cambridge scholar Tim Blanning’s “Frederick the Great,” a lengthy but never lagging biography of one of history’s most ...

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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia. By Tim Blanning. Allen Lane; 672 pages; £30. To be published in America by Random House in March; $35. FREDERICK II of Prussia was one of the most singular men ...

Last week we looked at the origins of House Hohenzollern and the Thirty Years’ War that brought Brandenburg-Prussia close to ...

POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) - Portraits of Frederick the Great line the streets, bookshops are bursting with new biographies, talk shows debate his legacy and toymaker Steiff has made a limited edition ...

View Frederick The Great 1712-1786, King of Prussia 1740-1786, in blue coat and ermine-trimmed red cloak, wearing the orange sash and breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle by ...

Frederick William I (1688-1740), King of Prussia 1713-1740, 'The Soldier King', in blue coat over a silver breastplate, wearing the orange sash and breast-star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. About 30 years after Frederick I of Prussia crowned himself king, my 8th great grandfather Peter left ...