With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War was history's most lopsided contest: a Prussian kingdom of five million people against an alliance of empires commanding over a hundred million. That tiny nation survived at all seems impossible, until you meet Frederick the Great. This novel follows a young Englishman who serves in Frederick's army, witnessing firsthand the king's desperate campaigns, his uncanny ability to read a battlefield, and the relentless will that kept Prussia alive when every strategist said it should fall. From the shock of Kolin to the frozen horror of Zorndorf, the reader is thrust into an era when war meant columns of men marching into cannon fire, when a single commander could reshape Europe's map with nothing but genius and stubbornness. Henty transforms military history into a coming-of-age tale, asking what it costs to follow a legend, and what it means to stand in the presence of greatness.