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Clausewitz, A Bbiography
by Parkinson, Roger
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling.
- ISBN 10
- 0812813693
- ISBN 13
- 9780812813692
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Stein and Day, 1971. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling.. 352 p. 24 cm. Illustrations, Maps, Portraits, Plans, Facsimiles. Bibliography. Index. Foreword by Michael Howard. From Wikipedia: "Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz June 1, 1780 November 16, 1831) was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms, psychological) and political aspects of war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege (On War), was unfinished at his death. He stressed the dialectical interaction of diverse factors, noting how unexpected developments unfolding under the "fog of war" call for rapid decisions by alert commanders. He saw history as a vital check on erudite abstractions that did not accord with experience. He argued that war could not be quantified or reduced to mapwork, geometry, and graphs. Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is "War is the continuation of politics by other means."
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- Seller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 70346
- Title
- Clausewitz, A Bbiography
- Author
- Parkinson, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812813693
- ISBN 13
- 9780812813692
- Publisher
- Stein and Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Michael Howard, Barclay de Tolly, Blucher, Hermann von Boyen, Napoleon, Friedrich Wilhelm, Gneisenau, Kutuzov, Michael Ney, Scharnhorst, Thielmann, Ludwig von Yorck
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