In this final volume of Carlyle's history of Frederick the Great, the king's last years emerge as a hard-won age of recovery, practical statecraft, and looming European upheaval. After the devastation of war, Frederick turns at once to rebuilding Prussia: restoring coinage, repairing thousands of houses, reviving agriculture, supporting schools, and using every available measure to turn ruin into productivity. Carlyle presents him as an aging ruler of extraordinary intelligence and energy, blunt in method, unsentimental in judgment, and astonishingly effective in peace as in war. Yet the book is more than a royal biography. It widens into a prophetic meditation on history itself, arguing that the French Revolution is the great turning point of the modern world, a vast eruption against falsehood, authority, and inherited social shams. The partition of Poland and the American War of Independence appear as important but secondary preludes to that greater convulsion. Along the way, Carlyle offers vivid scenes, from Frederick's return to Berlin and his brisk dealings with local officials to intimate encounters with queens, reformers, and Voltaire's circle, revealing both the grandeur and fragility of an age ending in revolution. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.