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"Hear, hear!" announces King Fritz to his people, "I give you the potato." But how can the king of Prussia convince them to try the strange new vegetable from South America?.

Reconstructs the life of Constance of Hauteville--wife of twelfth-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI of Germany and mother of Emperor Frederick II--chronicling, among other topics, her return to Sicily at the age of forty to rule her homeland.

Discusses how Frederick the Great made Prussia a major European power and how Prussia, under Bismarck's leadership, united Germany into an empire.

Examines the achievements of four great medieval warlords: Richard the Lion Heart, Charlemagne, El Cid, and Barbarossa.

A biography of the eighteenth-century Prussian king whose firm government and military exploits earned him the title of "enlightened despot.".