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Source/Further reading:
BBC In Our Time, Frederick the Great: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060bctg
Britannica biography: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-II-king-of-Prussia
Seven Years’ War overview: https://www.history.com/topics/france/seven-years-war
National Geographic, what’s so great about Frederick? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2017/03-04/frederick-the-great-king-prussia/
First meeting with Voltaire: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/when-frederick-great-met-voltaire-1577637.html
Times Literary Supplement, review of Blanning biography: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/flawed-complex/
Treatment of Jews in Prussia: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/prussia
Map of the First Partition of Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Partition_of_Poland#/media/File:Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth_1773-1789.PNG
Biographics on Maria Theresa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Kgk6neTDU