Prussia as a nation-state, as a cultural state, as a military power: beyond these one-dimensional ideas, Ottmar Ette's new book unfolds the picture of a multi-p

In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental E

Reprint of the original.

This book, originally published in 1980, is a study of the nature and purposes of peace-time military organization in Europe, and of the characteristics and out