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Author:   Peter Paret
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9781782385813

ISBN 10:   1782385819
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   01 December 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Text and Context: Two Ways to Clausewitz A Learned Officer among Others Frederick the Great and his Interpreters Clausewitz and Schlieffen - Three Phases in the History of Strategy From Ideal to Ambiguity: Johannes von Muller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms Half against my Will I have become a Professor Two Historians on Defeat and Its Causes Bibliography Index

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<em>.. .an enlightening addition to our ever-growing library of reflexions on Clausewitz's legacy. </em> <strong>- The Journal of Military History</strong></p>

.. .an enlightening addition to our ever-growing library of reflexions on Clausewitz's legacy. . The Journal of Military History

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Peter Paret (1924-2020) was Professor emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Study. Among his works on military history and on European culture in the 18th to the 20th century are a biography, Clausewitz and the State, now in its fourth expanded edition, and the translation, with Michael Howard, of Clausewitz's On War. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society and recipient of its Thomas Jefferson Medal, an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics, and an Honorary Member of the German Clausewitz Society. The German government awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.

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