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Article: Frederick the Great.(Review) (book review)

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July 1, 2000
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Frederick the Great King of Prussia

David Fraser Penguin Press 25 [pounds sterling] 704 pp ISBN 0-713-99377-4

SCATTERED AMONG THE GROVES of Kew Gardens are tiny classical pavilions dedicated by Augusta, Princess of Wales and mother of George III, to the German regiments which fought at our side in the Seven Years' War. One of them was Frankenstein's Horse -- the name of a corps d'elite of a Prussian Army which we had betrayed by pulling out of an alliance that was no longer convenient -- but destined to become a byword for a scientific marvel transmuted into a monstrosity ...

Which in a way sums up the theme of this book. To the Europe of the ...

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