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Modern Wars in Perspective Ser.: Wars of Frederick the Great by Dennis E. Showalter (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLongman Publishing
ISBN-100582062594
ISBN-139780582062597
eBay Product ID (ePID)528695
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWars of Frederick the Great
Publication Year1995
SubjectRoyalty, Europe / Germany, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorDennis E. Showalter
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History
SeriesModern Wars in Perspective Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN95-013124
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal943/.053/092
Table Of ContentIntroduction. 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
SynopsisThe 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., The campaigns of Frederick the Great were more than the apogee of eighteenth-century warfare: as Dennis Showalter argues in this major contribution to the Modern Wars in Perspective series, they were a watershed in the history of Europe., 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.
LC Classification NumberDD403.8.S54 1996
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