| | PAGE |
| 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] |