02918nam 2200565 450 991078704170332120230803205111.00-19-935796-X0-19-935795-1(CKB)3710000000238154(EBL)1784101(OCoLC)890981589(SSID)ssj0001332605(PQKBManifestationID)12575593(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001332605(PQKBWorkID)11376796(PQKB)11762668(MiAaPQ)EBC1784101(Au-PeEL)EBL1784101(CaPaEBR)ebr10929653(CaONFJC)MIL643717(EXLCZ)99371000000023815420140920h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrClausewitz his life and work /Donald StokerOxford, [England] ;New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (283 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-12466-3 0-19-935794-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Author's Note; Introduction: The Point of It All; 1. Boy Soldier (1780-1795); 2. The Ambitious Student of War (1795-1805); 3. Clausewitz at War: The 1806 Campaign; 4. A Political Education (1807-1812); 5. War and Words: The Campaign of 1812; 6. The Road to Tauroggen (1812); 7. 1813: War, Uprising, and Armistice; 8. 1813: Leipzig, Göhrde, and the Stecknitz; 9. Clausewitz and the Fall of Napoleon (1813-1814); 10. 1815: The Waterloo Campaign11. The Sum of It All (1815-1831)Conclusion: Clausewitz's Legacy; Appendix: Clausewitz's Battles; Notes; Select Bibliography; IndexCarl von Clausewitz's masterwork, On War, is generally considered the greatest text on military theory ever written. Clausewitz is a touchstone for the field today, and is read by scholars, students, and military personnel around the world. And yet to Clausewitz himself, far more important than achieving recognition for his scholarly and theoretical contributions was achieving glory on the field of battle-winning renown not with his pen but with his sword. Military historian Donald Stoker's perceptive biography of Carl von Clausewitz moves skillfully between Clausewitz's career as a soldier anNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815CampaignsRussiaBiographyNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815Campaigns355.02092Stoker Donald J.475880MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787041703321Clausewitz3707199UNINA