The World in Flames: A Global History of the Seven Years' War

“Marian Füssel’s book helps us to understand things like the perspectives of ordinary soldiers, how the violence of these wars was experienced by those caught up in them, how people thought about who had won a battle in cases where it was indecisive…The Seven Years’ War was the titanic struggle of Frederick’s reign. It was fought in central Europe as part of an attempt by Austria and its allies to recover Silesia from Prussia. At the same time, it was fought overseas, particularly between Britain and France over their lands in the Caribbean, America, and India. Marian Füssel’s book is one of the very rare works that combines all of these different parts of the Seven Years’ War together.” Read more...

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