Clausewitz: his life and work
Carl von Clausewitz''s masterwork, 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 recognition for his scholarly and theoretical contributions was achieving glory on the field of battle-winning renown not with his pen but with his sword. Military historian Donald Stoker''s p…
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- Full title :Clausewitz : his life and work / Donald Stoker.
Summary
Carl von Clausewitz''s masterwork, 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 recognition for his scholarly and theoretical contributions was achieving glory on the field of battle-winning renown not with his pen but with his sword. Military historian Donald Stoker''s perceptive biography of Carl von Clausewitz moves skillfully between Clausewitz''s career as a soldier.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (371 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199357956, 0199357951, 0199357943, 9780199357949, 9781322124667, 1322124663
- oclc:ocn891396887
- LC Classification:DD422.C5
- Dewey Decimal:355.02092
Table of Contents
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Author's Note -- Introduction: The Point of It All -- 1. Boy Soldier (1780-1795) -- 2. The Ambitious Student of War (1795-1805) -- 3. Clausewitz at War: The 1806 Campaign -- 4. A Political Education (1807-1812) -- 5. War and Words: The Campaign of 1812 -- 6. The Road to Tauroggen (1812) -- 7. 1813: War, Uprising, and Armistice -- 8. 1813: Leipzig, Göhrde, and the Stecknitz -- 9. Clausewitz and the Fall of Napoleon (1813-1814) -- 10. 1815: The Waterloo Campaign -- 11. The Sum of It All (1815-1831) -- Conclusion: Clausewitz's Legacy -- Appendix: Clausewitz's Battles -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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