A brilliantly reviewed history of this 'Great Power' which dominated Europe from the 18th to the 20th Centuries, which includes remarkable accounts of some of the most extraordinary personalities in Western history, Frederick The Great, Bismarck, Kant and Kaiser Wilhelm, for example. 'A magisterial history of Europe's only extinct power' }Financial Times With great flair and authority, the author describes Prussia's great battles, dynastic marriages and astonishing reversals of fortune, its brilliant and charismatic leaders from the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the Great, the military machine and the progressive, enlightened values on which it was built.
