On War
$24.95
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1982
Summary
Writing at the time of Napoleon’s greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political thought. In line with Napoleon’s own military actions, he illustrated the need to annihilate the enemy and make a strong display of one’s power in an ‘absolute war’ without compromise. But he was also careful to distinguish between war and politics, arguing that war could only b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140444278 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140444270 |
| Author: | Carl Clausewitz, Anatol Rapoport, J. Graham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1982 |
| Weight: | 346g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Carl Clausewitz
Prussian general and military theorist Charles Von Clausewitz was born in the Prussian city of Burg in 1780. He was commissioned to take part in the campaigns of the First Coalition against Revolutionary France. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War.
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