All great captains have shown that they thus viewed the parade -- FREDERICK the Great as much so as NAPOLEON I.

Tim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (New York: Random House, 2016), 688 pp., $35.00. NAPOLEON SWIFTLY conquered Prussia in October 1806, inflicting crushing defeats at Jena and ...

But Napoleon the Great? The title of Andrew Roberts’s masterly new biography will have many scratching their chins. It is worth considering why.

Son of an abusive father, Frederick II blossomed when he took the throne. He attracted the great thinkers of Europe to his court while establishing Prussia as a dominant military power.

Frederick the Great is one of history's most famous and adept military commanders. He's not Napoleon, but pretty damn close. The 18th-century Prussian king is credited with transforming a ...

Many famous quotes are attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. “History is a set of lies agreed upon” is one. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake” is another. And then there ...