Clausewitz his life and work

Carl von Clausewitz's On War, is generally considered the greatest text on military theory ever written. Clausewitz is a touchstone for the field today, and is read by scholars, students, and military personnel around the world. And yet to Clausewitz himself, far more important than achieving r...

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Main Author: Stoker, Donald J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The point of it all
  • Boy soldier (1780- 1795)
  • The ambitious student of war (1795-1805)
  • Clausewitz at war: The 1806 campaign
  • A political education (1807-1812)
  • War and words: the Campaign of 1812
  • The road to Taurrogen
  • 1813: War, revolution, and armistice
  • 1813: Leipzig, Gohrde, and the Stecknitz
  • Clausewitz and the fall of Napoleon (1813-1814)
  • 1815: The Waterloo campaign
  • The sum of it all (1815-1831)
  • Conclusion: Clausewitz's legacy