A classic of Baroque military science, Hanns Friedrich Fleming's “Perfect German Soldier” (Der vollkommene teutsche Soldat, 1729), took war to be practically the driving force behind a general refinement in conduct that had brought ...
"In her time, Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was the most powerful woman in the world.
"In The Fall of the House of Habsburg (1963), Edward Crankshaw dealt with the final century of the longest-reigning dynasty in Europe. In Maria Theresa he has returned to this...
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa: And Other Studies
When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years.