After Frederick William I’s death in 1740, his son and successor took the throne and surprisingly went on to achieve stunning military victories, consolidating Prussia’s role as a great ...

After The Battle of Mollwitz Frederick, had learned a great deal about war and the people of the world were enthralled by ...

Historian Christopher Clark re-examines the life and achievements of one of Germany's most colourful and controversial leaders, a philosopher and cultured 'Prince of the Enlightenment' whose ...

The play is made up of selected letter exchanges between the great French-European philosopher and the royal prince, later king, of Prussia, beginning when the latter was a mere 24 years old and the ...

However: agriculture still dominated the economy Prussia was ruled by the authoritarian Hohenzollern Royal family (on the death of King Frederick William III, Frederick William IV became the new ...