Frederick the Great

"He is everything I like, brave, funny, no nonsense, marvellous taste, common sense, interested in everything" -- Nancy Mitford On Frederick II Of Prussia "The unmistakable Mitford trill, in whose light, bright cadences an entire hard-to-shock and easy-to-bore view of life is made manifest" -- Zoe Heller Daily Telegraph "Elegant and entertaining" Chicago Tribune "Witty and atmospheric" Sunday Times "[Her books] have the air of having been talked on to the page, in a voice as direct and intimate and clear as a child's" -- Laura Thompson Daily Telegraph