Auf Wiedersehen, v.d. Marwitz
For now at least. So yesterday morning before going to work I finally finished the second volume of v.d. Marwitz's Nachlasse (on Frederick the Great's…
Read more →For now at least. So yesterday morning before going to work I finally finished the second volume of v.d. Marwitz's Nachlasse (on Frederick the Great's…
Read more →Happy Birthday Königreich Preußen! On this day in 1701 Friedrich I was crowned King in Prussia at Königsberg, some things should be remembered. Was…
Read more →Neues altes Buch: Geist der Zeit von Ernst Moritz Arndt, 1806. Band 1, erste Ausgabe, €94. Ich freue mich auf einen Angriff auf den Pferdedieb.
Read more →Frohes neues Jahr! (Mal schauen...) I found the following passage, actually a large footnote, from v.d. Marwitz's Nachlasse (Volume 2, page 284) very…
Read more →A nice purchase this week from Abe Books, all five volumes of Treitschke's Deutsche Geschichte, all by the same publisher but with different dates…
Read more →Heute vor 287 (1730) Jahren wurde Hans Hermann von Katte im Festung Küstrin enthauptet. The court martial judgement makes for interesting reading, the…
Read more →I have to admit to struggling a little with the second volume of Marwiz's Nachlasse, so far it's mostly a list of people I haven't heard of riding…
Read more →I'm now in the process of dismantling volume VII of Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great ready for rebinding. Once again it seemed like a good…
Read more →Today is the 260th anniversary of the Berliner Husarenstreich in 1757, when Austro-Hungarian forces briefly occupied Berlin whilst Frederick the Great…
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