Carl von Clausewitz

Translated into virtually every major language, 'Principles of War' is required reading in intermediate level and senior military schools.

On June 23, 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armée, over 500,000 men strong, poured over the Russian border. An equally massive Russian army faced them. The ensuing campaign was a catastrophe for Napoleon. Although the battle of Borodino, which resulted in heavy losses on both sides, allowed Napoleon to enter Moscow, his stay in that empty and decimated city was disastrous. By the time Napoleon had retreated to the Berezina river in late November, his Grande Armée was only a fifth of its original strength. His retreat had become a rout, and his allies began to desert him. In this book, Clausewitz analyzes all the significant players with sharp and enlightening characterizations, and provides perhaps the best eyewitness accounts of the battle of Borodino and the Convention of Tauroggen. The Campaign of 1812 in Russia is a brilliantly observed study of one of the major turning points of history.

Carl von Clausewitz was not only an officer who served with great distinction during the Napoleonic campaigns but was also a military historian and intellectual of the highest order--at ease with both the strategic doctrines of his time and the larger movements of thought in the world around him. Out of these elements he distilled his classic discussion of the nature and meaning of one of humankind's central endeavors, war--which he famously declared to be the continuation of politics by different means. Though unfinished at his death, On War contains all his important ideas about absolute versus limited war, the intrinsic violence of war, and its necessary subjugation to political ends. It would be impossible to overestimate the influence of this book on subsequent strategic thinking, on the political considerations that underlie such thinking, and on the general understanding of human conflict.

ON WAR is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832 it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soilders statemen, and intellectuals from Marx and Bismarck to Raymond Aron.

On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen, and intellectuals.

Gathers pre-nineteenth century classics on military strategy by experts from ancient China, the Roman Empire, France, and Germany

Unabridged value reproduction of the most critical and thought provoking first four books of "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz, translated by J. J. Graham, and including footnotes. These books give the theory and goals of war that can be applied to conquering meeting rooms and empires. This volume of On War includes topics of the Nature, Theory, and Strategy of War and Combat. These of Clausewitz's four books in one volume allow the reader to review and contemplate Clausewitz's teachings as it applies to their life. No student of influence should be without this historic philosophy book on leadership. This Value Classic Reprint provides a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTSTHE INTRODUCTION OF THE AUTHOR 3 BRIEF MEMOIR OF GENERAL CLAUSEWITZ 3 BOOK I. ON THE NATURE OF WAR 6 BOOK II. ON THE THEORY OF WAR 38 BOOK III. OF STRATEGY IN GENERAL 70 BOOK IV. THE COMBAT 98

Unabridged value reproduction of the most critical and thought provoking first four books of "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz, translated by J. J. Graham, and including footnotes. These books give the theory and goals of war that can be applied to conquering meeting rooms and empires. This volume of On War includes topics of the Nature, Theory, and Strategy of War and Combat. These of Clausewitz's four books in one volume allow the reader to review and contemplate Clausewitz's teachings as it applies to their life. No student of influence should be without this historic philosophy book on leadership. This Value Classic Reprint provides a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTSTHE INTRODUCTION OF THE AUTHOR 3 BRIEF MEMOIR OF GENERAL CLAUSEWITZ 3 BOOK I. ON THE NATURE OF WAR 6 BOOK II. ON THE THEORY OF WAR 38 BOOK III. OF STRATEGY IN GENERAL 70 BOOK IV. THE COMBAT 98