SZABO (F.) THE SEVEN YEARS WAR IN EUROPE 1756-1763. 512pp., 10 maps, P.B. 2007.

In the groundbreaking new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research of the Austrian State Archives, the author presents a scholarly but eminently readable reassessment of the continental war. He challenges the theory that Prussia won through the military skill of Frederick the Great, suggesting rather that in many ways Frederick was a liability & at best Prussia merely survived the war.