CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION[1]
CHAPTER I
THE RISE OF PRUSSIA[3]
CHAPTER II
FREDERICK AS CROWN PRINCE, 1712–1740[24]
CHAPTER III
THE PROBLEM OF 1740[56]
CHAPTER IV
THE SILESIAN ADVENTURE, 1740–1742[83]
CHAPTER V
THE SECOND STRUGGLE FOR SILESIA, 1742–1745[128]
CHAPTER VI
THE TEN YEARS’ PEACE, 1746–1756[155]
CHAPTER VII
THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR TO THE BATTLE OF LEUTHEN[189]
CHAPTER VIII
THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR (CONTINUED). LEUTHEN TO MAXEN (DECEMBER, 1757, TO DECEMBER, 1759)[251]
CHAPTER IX
THE END OF THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR, 1760–1763[281]
CHAPTER X
FREDERICK AND PRUSSIA AFTER THE WAR[301]
CHAPTER XI
FREDERICK AND EUROPE, 1763–1786[322]
CHAPTER XII
FREDERICK’S DEATH AND GREATNESS[344]
Index[361]