MITFORD NANCY — Frederick the Great

Penguin, Australia. 1973, 1st Thus. (ISBN: 0140036539) Card Cover , 25cm. Book, With her sure and witty touch Nancy Mitford carefully unravels the complex character of one of the most brilliant statesmen Europe has ever known. She recreates Frederick's unhappy youth, dominated by an outrageously ill tempered father, his very special relationship with Wilhelmine, the sister who resembled him so uncannily, his reforming zeal, which paved the way for a united Germany and his spectacular wars which proved him beyond doubt the greatest commander of his age. Good.