Frederick the Great: A Military LifeFor tactical and strategic ingenuity, for daring and ruthless determination and the capacity to inspire troops, Frederick the Great was without equal. In this detailed life of ‘Old Fritz’, Christopher Duffy, who has written widely on the army of Frederick and on the armies of his adversaries, Austria and Russia, has produced a definitive account of his military genius. |
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The military life of Frederick the Great
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FieldMarshal Leopold Daun | 13 |
Prince August Wilhelm | 14 |
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz | 15 |
The Prussian cavalry at Rossbach | 16 |
Frederick at Parchwitz 18 Hochkirch The battle at the entrance to the Blutgasse | 17 |
Hochkirch Langens gate 20 Prince Henry | 19 |
Old Fritz | 20 |
The concert room Sans Souci | 21 |
Soor 30 September 1745 | 10 |
Lobositz 1 October 1756 | 11 |
Invasion of Bohemia 1757 1757 | 12 |
Prague the breakthrough | 13 |
June 1757 | 14 |
Frederician Potsdam 14 Before Rossbach | 15 |
Rossbach 5 November 1757 | 16 |
Leuthen 5 December 1757 | 17 |
The Chinese Tea House Sans Souci | 22 |
Frederick the last days | 24 |
Two The Silesian Wars 17405 | 25 |
Three The Armed Camp 174556 | 43 |
The end at Kolin | 11 |
Seven Public Affairs and the War of the Bavarian Succession 17789 | 236 |
Eight Final Years and Immortality | 249 |
Nine Frederick and | 257 |
Maps | 5 |
Mollwitz 10 April 1741 | 6 |
Chotusitz 17 May 1742 | 7 |
Bohemia 1744 | 8 |
Hohenfriedeberg 4 June 1745 | 9 |
Campaign of Olmütz 1758 | 18 |
Zorndorf 25 August 1758 | 19 |
Hochkirch 14 October 1758 | 20 |
The Kunersdorf campaign 1759 | 21 |
Kunersdorf 12 August 1759 | 22 |
Liegnitz 15 August 1760 | 23 |
Torgau the turning movement | 24 |
Torgau 3 November 1760 | 25 |
Burkersdorf 21 July 1762 | 27 |
The Jaromiersch position 1778 | 28 |
The HohenelbeArnau position 1778 | 29 |
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| Վերնագիր | Frederick the Great: A Military Life Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History |
| Հեղինակ | Christopher Duffy |
| Edition | reprint |
| Հրատարակիչ | Routledge, 2015 |
| ISBN | 1317408497, 9781317408499 |
| Length | 428 էջ |
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