The campaigns of Frederick the Great were more than the apogee of eighteenth-century warfare: as Dennis Showalter argues in this stimulating book which sets them in their full context, they were a watershed in the history of Europe. They inaugurated a new pattern -- of total war for limited objectives -- that was to endure until 1916. Frederick's battles were designed to convince his adversaries of the wisdom not just of making peace but also of keeping it; for him, victory in the field was the means to the more enduring victory of a successful negotiation, and, as such, his wars prefigure those of Napoleon.
- ISBN10 0582062594
- ISBN13 9780582062597
- Publish Date 13 November 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Longman
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English