The Wars of Frederick the Great - German General Staff Study

Austrians storm the Prussian camp at Hochkirch, catching Frederich by surprise

Austrians storm the Prussian camp at Hochkirch, catching Frederich by surprise

The German General Staff study of the First and Second Silesian Wars and the Seven Years War remains a classic secondary source for a detailed study of the conflict. Luckily it is available to download as a .pdf file from the links below. There are several different scans of several of the volumes  but I have selected those from the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto as being both the most readable and the one that provides the clearest scans of the maps at the rear of most volumes.

Die Kriege Friedrichs des Großen
Grosser Generalstab. Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II (editor Eberhard Kessels)
Teil 1: Der Erste Schlesische Krieg
Band 1 Die Besetzung Schlesiens und die Schlacht bei Mollwitz https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedr05iigoog
2 & 3 (in einem Band) Von Mollwitz bis zum Beginn des Mährischen Feldzugs https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedr04iigoog
  Der Feldzug in Mähren und der Feldzug in Böhmen und Oberschlesien  
     
Teil 2: Der Zweite Schlesische Krieg
Band 1 Böhmen 1744 https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit2b1prus
2 Hohenfriedberg https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit2b2prus
3 Soor und Kesselsdorf https://archive.org/details/th2bd3diekriegefriedri03prusuoft
     
Teil 3: Der Siebenjahrige Krieg
Band 1 Pirna und Lobositz 1756 https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedr01iigoog
2 Prag 1757 https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b2rus
3 Kolin 1757 https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b3prus
4 Gross-Jägersdorf und Breslau 1757 https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b4prus
5 Hastenbeck und Rossbach 1757 https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedr04armegoog
6 Leuthen 1757 https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b6prus
7 Olmütz und Crefeld https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b7prus
8 Zorndorf und Hochkirch 1758 https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b8prus
9 Bergen https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b9prus
10 Kunersdorf https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b10rus
11 Minden und Maxen https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b11rus
12 Landeshut und Liegnitz https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b12rus
13 Torgau: Die Ereignisse von der Schlacht bei Liegnitz bis zu den Vortagen der Schlacht von Torgau https://archive.org/details/diekriegefriedrit3b13rus

The study only goes up to 1760 and it was not until 1992 that the draft manuscripts of the final volumes was found in the Potsdamer Heeresarchivs/Kriegsgeschichtliche Forschungsanstalt des Heeres Manuskripte. These have now been published as Thomas Lindner (Hg.)Eberhard Kessel - Das Ende des Siebenjährigen Krieges 1760-1763 (Teil 1: Torgau und Bunzelwitz, Teil 2: Schweidnitz und Freiberg. Textband und Kartenschuber) by Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh which is as complete as the series is likely to be.

Leuthen memorial as designed

Leuthen memorial as designed

The battlefield of Leuthen is gradually disappearing under a mixture of urban development, insensitive planning decisions and vandalism 

The battlefield of Leuthen is gradually disappearing under a mixture of urban development, insensitive planning decisions and vandalism 

The Leuthen memorial was destroyed by retreating German soldiers in 1945, however this photograph was taken by a visitor in 2016 and it isconsiderably worse for wear since I last saw it in 1998.

The Leuthen memorial was destroyed by retreating German soldiers in 1945, however this photograph was taken by a visitor in 2016 and it isconsiderably worse for wear since I last saw it in 1998.