Frederick The Great And Maria Theresa From Hitherto Unpublished Documents 1740 1742 Volume 1 PDF Download

Excerpt from Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa, Vol. 1 of 2: From Hitherto Unpublished Documents, 1740-1742 The work now presented to my readers is composed of a series of historical studies that have appeared at intervals in the Revue des Deux Mondes. They were received with approval in the serial form, and I hope they may find favour in their present guise, from a more numerous public. I am aware that a portion of the interest which these narratives of a long past epoch possess, is due to the comparison that no one can have failed to draw, between the part played by France, Austria, and Prussia, the powers engaged in the war of 1740, and that which they have acted in the more tragic dramas of recent times. I think I have, however, successfully resisted the temptation to warp historic truth by seeking in the past misplaced allusions to the present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.