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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Donald StokerPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.80cm Weight: 0.640kg ISBN: 9780199357949ISBN 10: 0199357943 Pages: 372 Publication Date: 27 November 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsGreat. A skillful study of the interplay of military history and thought provides Don Stoker with an instructive way to approach Clausewitz's career and writings. --Jeremy Black, author of War and Technology One of the book's great strengths is its accessibility; Stoker weaves the standard sources together with authoritative, modern secondary treatments to form a readable, well-paced narrative that draws out biographical detail while illuminating the broader political and military canvas on which Clausewitz's life was lived. - War on the Rocks Carefully crafted...an important and worthy book. - The Daily Beast Great. A skilful study of the interplay of military history and thought provides Don Stoker with an instructive way to approach Clausewitz's career and writings. Jeremy Black, author of War and Technology Great. A skilful study of the interplay of military history and thought provides Don Stoker with an instructive way to approach Clausewitz's career and writings. * Jeremy Black, author of War and Technology * Stoker's biography stands as an authoritative analysis of Clausewitz's career as a soldier and theoretician, offering new insights into his subject's personality and legacy * Military History Monthly, Jules Stewart * Donald Stoker's book will please scholars and a wider public alike... Stoker's is a very human portrait of a man who was a once a genius, a brilliant analyst and a whinger, a thin-skinned melancholic, yet a merciless critic of others with bizarre mannerisms. We come away feeling we have met a fascinating man face to face, but not necessarily one that we would have liked. That said, this helps us better to understand Clausewitz's great contribution to our understanding of war. This is no mean achievement. * History Today, Beatrice Heuser * Donald Stoker's book will please scholars and a wider public alike... Stoker's is a very human portrait of a man who was a once a genius, a brilliant analyst and a whinger, a thin-skinned melancholic, yet a merciless critic of others with bizarre mannerisms. We come away feeling we have met a fascinating man face to face, but not necessarily one that we would have liked. That said, this helps us better to understand Clausewitz's great contribution to our understanding of war. This is no mean achievement. History Today, Beatrice Heuser Stoker's biography stands as an authoritative analysis of Clausewitz's career as a soldier and theoretician, offering new insights into his subject's personality and legacy Military History Monthly, Jules Stewart Great. A skilful study of the interplay of military history and thought provides Don Stoker with an instructive way to approach Clausewitz's career and writings. Jeremy Black, author of War and Technology Author InformationDonald Stoker is Professor of Strategy and Policy for the U.S. Naval War College's program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is the author of The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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