I mean, they might be? I just haven't found them. He wrote two different sets of memoirs, btw, one for the first two Silesian wars and one for the third (the Seven Years' War). There's also the memoirs of the House of Brandenburg, which is another highly biased account of Prussian history up to Fritz's time (1740s).
I see Catt's memoirs but not Fritz's???? okay, this is super weird to me!
Admittedly I haven't read them. But from descriptions and my occasional use of them in French as a reference source, I gather they're more like Julius Caesar's Commentaries than Wilhelmine's or Catt's memoirs: a third-person account of how the King won his wars and how the King is a great general and how the King is responsible for all the Prussian victories, to the point where Heinrich felt the need to annotate the margins with outraged comments about how it is all LIES. And then build an obelisk as his refutation.
I gather they're really military and political history, neither highly accurate, nor even as exciting as Catt's as historical novels go. Most of the people who care deeply about Fritz's version of Fritz's battles probably already read German or French, which is why if there is an English translation, it's hard to find. That said, they are on my reading list, but only after I've read enough military history to be able to read them critically (at which point I may be back at work and have moved onto other things). In sum, they may not be of great interest to you, but if you find translations, let me know. There may be good stuff in there that nobody notices because nobody reads them cover-to-cover.
Things that have been translated into English include the Anti-Machiavel (which I haven't read in twenty years and should acquire a copy of and reread, preferably after brushing up on Machiavelli himself), and a book-length set of excerpt from his instructions to his generals, which I own and is on my list to reread as soon as I can concentrate enough to read books again.
Ideally I would beef up my French and open up whole new vistas, and I occasionally toy with the idea, but I need to fix my concentration first, and by the time that happens, I'll be back at work and probably back to Classics, or at least back to writing Fritzian fanfic. Until then, OCR cleanup it is!
(*Ideally ideally* I would beef up my German, but let's be realistic: I will be out of this fandom before I get around to it. I'd rather know German than French, but I'm closer to reading proficiency in French, so it's more likely to happen.)
Re: Katte at Küstrin: The Theodor Hoffbauer Version
I see Catt's memoirs but not Fritz's???? okay, this is super weird to me!
Admittedly I haven't read them. But from descriptions and my occasional use of them in French as a reference source, I gather they're more like Julius Caesar's Commentaries than Wilhelmine's or Catt's memoirs: a third-person account of how the King won his wars and how the King is a great general and how the King is responsible for all the Prussian victories, to the point where Heinrich felt the need to annotate the margins with outraged comments about how it is all LIES. And then build an obelisk as his refutation.
I gather they're really military and political history, neither highly accurate, nor even as exciting as Catt's as historical novels go. Most of the people who care deeply about Fritz's version of Fritz's battles probably already read German or French, which is why if there is an English translation, it's hard to find. That said, they are on my reading list, but only after I've read enough military history to be able to read them critically (at which point I may be back at work and have moved onto other things). In sum, they may not be of great interest to you, but if you find translations, let me know. There may be good stuff in there that nobody notices because nobody reads them cover-to-cover.
Things that have been translated into English include the Anti-Machiavel (which I haven't read in twenty years and should acquire a copy of and reread, preferably after brushing up on Machiavelli himself), and a book-length set of excerpt from his instructions to his generals, which I own and is on my list to reread as soon as I can concentrate enough to read books again.
Ideally I would beef up my French and open up whole new vistas, and I occasionally toy with the idea, but I need to fix my concentration first, and by the time that happens, I'll be back at work and probably back to Classics, or at least back to writing Fritzian fanfic. Until then, OCR cleanup it is!
(*Ideally ideally* I would beef up my German, but let's be realistic: I will be out of this fandom before I get around to it. I'd rather know German than French, but I'm closer to reading proficiency in French, so it's more likely to happen.)