There will never be peace, in fact, between the Prussian King and the representatives of the Prussian people, till WILLIAM learns to manifest the same respect for the privileges of the deputies ...

a triumph for the new Prussian king. Frederick II accedes to the throne of Prussia after the death of his father. A few months later, he invades Silesia and starts an eight-year war with Austria.

An insightful account of one of perhaps the most critical European war of the period between the Waterloo and the Guns of August, which brought about the collapse of the French Second Empire and the ...