Clausewitz : his life and work / / Donald Stoker

• Autore: Stoker Donald J.
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.02092
• Soggetto topico: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - Campaigns - Russia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Campaign ; 11. The Sum of It All (1815-1831)Conclusion: Clausewitz's Legacy; Appendix: Clausewitz's Battles; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Carl 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 an
• Titolo autorizzato: Clausewitz
• ISBN: 0-19-935796-X; 0-19-935795-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818782803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II