Reborn as Frederick the Great

Maximilian Hartmann had his life planned out: finish his master's thesis on Prussian military history, maybe get his doctorate, spend his days buried in archives studying the campaigns of Frederick the Great. Simple. Scholarly. Safe. Then Truck-kun had other plans. When a divine assassination meant for a chosen hero goes wrong, Max becomes collateral damage—standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. The embarrassed Goddess of Fate offers him compensation: reincarnation in a parallel 18th-century world, complete with encyclopedic knowledge of modern technology, science, and warfare. The catch? He's starting over as a newborn baby. The bigger surprise? He's been reborn as Friedrich II of Prussia—the very historical figure he spent years studying. Now Max faces the ultimate test for any history student: can he do better than the original? Armed with knowledge of how events "should" unfold and the technical expertise to revolutionize an entire era, he has the power to reshape Europe. But first, he needs to survive childhood, deal with his tyrannical father Friedrich Wilhelm I, and figure out how to build a steam engine with 18th-century resources. From the gilded halls of Prussian palaces to the gunpowder-smoke battlefields of Europe, one German history nerd gets the chance to turn his thesis into reality. The Age of Enlightenment is about to get a serious upgrade. Frederick the Great changed history once. Can Max do it even better the second time around?