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The Price of Fame
A World History of the Seven Years’ War
‘My misfortune is that I am still alive … From an army of 48,000 men I have now, where I write this, not 3000." When Frederick the Great noted this on August 11, 1759, the terrible battle at Kunersdorf lies behind him.
The horror of this one day stands emblematically for a world war of the eighteenth century, the events of which, between 1756 and 1763, affected not only all of Europe but also French, British and Spanish colonies and the native tribes of North America.
Marian Füssel presents a large, exciting depiction of the Seven Years' War, the intercontinental dimensions of which let it appear a laboratory of modernism:
Nationalism and globalization, hero cult and the aestheticisation of barbarous violence, asymmetric warfare and the fight for international markets – all this made the war an event to change the world to a hitherto unthinkable degree. The author offers us a global perspective on dramatic events usually told from nationally specific perspectives, but also offers eye-witness accounts from the battlefields.
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