Clausewitz's on War: A Biography

by Hew Strachan

Book Overview

Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is required reading at military academies to this day. But On War, which was never finished and was published posthumously, is obscure and fundamentally contradictory. What Clausewitz declares in book 1, he discounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802143636
• ISBN13: 9780802143631
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"