Book I: Birth and Parentage (1712) Book II: Of Brandenburg and the Hohenzollerns (928 - 1417) Book III: The Hohenzollerns in Brandenburg (1412 - 1718) Book IV: Friedrich's Apprenticeship, First Stage (1713 - 1728) Book V: Double-Marriage Project, and What Element It Fell Into (1723 - 1726) Book VI: Double-Marriage Project, and Crown-Prince, Going Adrift Under the Storm-Winds (1727 - 1730) Book VII: Fearful Shipwreck of the Double-Marriage Project (February - November 1730) Book VIII: Crown-Prince Retrieved: Life at Custrin (November 1730 - February 1732) Book IX: Last Stage of Friedrich's Apprenticeship: Life in Ruppin (1732 - 1736) Book X: At Rheinsberg (1736 - 1740) Book XI: Friedrich Takes the Reins in Hand (June - December 1740) Book XII: First Silesian War, Awakening a General European One, Begins (December 1740 - May 1741) Book XIII: First Silesian War, Leaving the General European One Ablaze All Round, Gets Ended (May 1741 - July 1742) Book XIV: The Surrounding European War Does Not End (August 1742 - July 1744) Book XV: Second Silesian War, Important Episode in the General European One (15 August 1744 - 25 December 1745) Book XVI: The Ten Years of Peace (1746 - 1756) Book XVII: The Seven-Years War: First Campaign (1756 - 1757) Book XVIII: Seven-Years War Rises to a Height (1757 - 1759) Book XIX: Friedrich Like to Be Overwhelmed in the Seven-Years War (1759 - 1760) Book XX: Friedrich is Not to Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends (25 April 1760 - 15 February 1763) Book XXI: Afternoon and Evening of Friedrich's Life (1763 - 1786) Appendix