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Title: Army of Frederick the Great by Christopher Duffy ISBN: 1-883476-02-X Publisher: Emperor's Pr Pub. Date: March, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An Excellent Overview Ruined by Poor Editing
Comment: Poor editing, with numerous typos and spelling/syntax errors mars this work. There is excellent detail on the organization, training and equipment of the Prussian army, 1740-86. Good individual chapters on Prussian infantry, cavalry, artillery and support services. Frederick does not appear so "great" here; an able tactician and aggressive soldier-king, but marred by pique and an ignorant perspective. He despised his artillerymen and engineers and consequently, his efforts at siege warfare were failures. While the Prussian infantry and cavalry were superb, he under-utilized artillery and most of his "oblique attacks" were merely cleverly-executed frontal attacks. There is an appendix with unit summaries on all Prussian regiments. This could have been a superb work, but it is marred by inadequate maps, which are difficult to understand and don't depict battles well. Incredibly, there are no campaign maps. Additionally, there should have been a biographical chapter on Prussian leaders, as well as line and block charts on organization and a better campaign summary.
Rating: 4
Summary: A moderating opinion
Comment: I agree with the above reader on the issue of typos, but these should not take away from the excellence of Duffy's work on Frederick the Great. The typos aside, this is an excellent and accessible book, which gives a good overview of the Prussian military from 1740-1763 (mainly) without forcing the reader to go through Duffy's more comprehensive biography of the Prussian King if they don't want to.
Rating: 3
Summary: Typos, typos, and more typos!
Comment: Owning the first edition of Duffy's work, I could not wait to see the believed-to-be improved second edition. While some new information exists, there are so many typographical errors permeating the text, that the shoddy work by this publisher substantially distracts the reader from Duffy's prose. What's more, the publisher/editor of this second edition omitted from the listing/battle histories one of the Prussian regiments that was detailed in the original edition. Duffy is a fine historian, but it is too bad that the publisher's efforts were not up to the same standards. In conclusion, I will continue to use the original edition in favor of this second edition.
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Title: Military Experience in the Age of Reason by Christopher Duffy ISBN: 1853266906 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Seven Years' War (Essential Histories, No 6) by Daniel Marston ISBN: 1841761915 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Prussia's Glory: Rossbach and Leuthen 1757 by Christopher Duffy ISBN: 1883476291 Publisher: Emperor's Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714 (Modern Wars in Perspective) by John A. Lynn ISBN: 0582056292 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 15 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Frederick the Great; A Historical Profile. by Gerhard A. Ritter, Peter Paret ISBN: 0520027752 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 1975 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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