T. G. Otte is currently a Professor of Diplomatic History at University of East Anglia. His research examines the history of great power relations from 1600 to the late 20th century. Otte has written or edited twenty two books, including Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (London: Allen Lane, 2020) (New Statesman Book of the Year 2020; Spectator Book of the Year 2021), July Crisis: How the World Descended into War, Summer 1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) (PROSE Merit award 2015, 'European & World History'), and The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

One of the many merits of Otte's book on Leuthen is precisely that it traces the genesis anddevelopment of the modern concept of flanking manoeuvre from the beginning of the Frederician oblique order, through the operational formalisations of the General Staff in the XIX century, slowly broadening its scope until touching upon the German share of those political and military assumptions that laid the foundationsof the conflict with which the decline of the Westphalian System began.

• Preface 1: War in the Holy Roman Empire 2: The Silesian Wars 3: The Battle and Its Consequence 4: The Leuthen Legacy in Military Thought before the First World War 5: Myth and Memory: Leuthen's Political and Cultural Legacy Conclusion

T. G. Otte is currently a Professor of Diplomatic History at University of East Anglia. His research examines the history of great power relations from 1600 to the late 20th century. Otte has written or edited twenty two books, including Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (London: Allen Lane, 2020) (New Statesman Book of the Year 2020; Spectator Book of the Year 2021), July Crisis: How the World Descended into War, Summer 1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) (PROSE Merit award 2015, 'European & World History'), and The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

One of the many merits of Otte's book on Leuthen is precisely that it traces the genesis anddevelopment of the modern concept of flanking manoeuvre from the beginning of the Frederician oblique order, through the operational formalisations of the General Staff in the XIX century, slowly broadening its scope until touching upon the German share of those political and military assumptions that laid the foundationsof the conflict with which the decline of the Westphalian System began.

• Preface 1: War in the Holy Roman Empire 2: The Silesian Wars 3: The Battle and Its Consequence 4: The Leuthen Legacy in Military Thought before the First World War 5: Myth and Memory: Leuthen's Political and Cultural Legacy Conclusion