CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ'S ON WAR by Sir Hew Strachan ( 9781843543923 )

Item Details

Title:

CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ'S ON WAR
A BIOGRAPHY (A BOOK THAT SHOOK THE WORLD)

By:

Sir Hew Strachan

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£16.99

Our price:

£15.29

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£1.70

ISBN 10:

1843543923

ISBN 13:

9781843543923

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

ATLANTIC BOOKS

Pub. date:

1 June, 2008

Edition:

Main

Series:

BOOKS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

Pages:

256

Description:

Now in paperback, Hew Strachan tells in engaging and vivid detail the story of the most important treatise on war ever written: a book that has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars.

Synopsis:

On War by Carl von Clausewitz was first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most significant treatises on military strategy ever written, it is still prescribed at various military academies today. Its description of 'absolute war' and its insistence on the centrality of battle to war have been blamed for the level of destruction involved in both the First and Second World Wars. Hew Strachan's accessible book challenges the popular misconceptions that surround On War. He dispels the notion that for Clausewitz policy necessarily shapes war, asserting instead that war has its own dynamic and that its reciprocal effects can themselves shape policy. Strachan returns to the very heart of On War to recover the arguments at its core; in the process challenging the received wisdom about this cornerstone of military strategy.

Publication:

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

ARMS, ECONOMICS AND BRITISH STRATEGY (HB)

BENEATH TROUBLED SKIES (PB)

BIG WARS AND SMALL WARS