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Atheist and gay, Frederick the Great was more radical than most leaders today

Tim Blanning's instructive, entertaining and surprising new biography of Prussia's colourful king will become the standard English-language account

3 October 2015

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3 October 2015

9:00 AM

Frederick the Great: King of Prussia Tim Blanning

Allen Lane, pp.625, £30, ISBN: 9781846141829

Reacquaintance with Germany is long overdue for most English people. Before 1914 it was at least as familiar as France and Italy. Tim Blanning, former professor of Modern European History at Cambridge, has already written brilliantly about Germany in books such as The Culture of Power and The Triumph of Music.

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