Description
Product ID: | 9780712664844 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Reading Clausewitz |
Authors: | Author: Beatrice Heuser |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Warfare and defence, Theory of warfare and military science, Warfare & defence, Theory of warfare & military science |
Description: | A comprehensive study of Clausewitz's "On War", first published in 1832 and regarded as a classic study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Heuser shows how to read Clausewitz as well as how others have read him - from the military commanders of World War I to strategists in the nuclear age. Clausewitz''s On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Contemporaries found him ''endearing'' or ''totally unpalatable'', while later generations called him ''the father of modern strategical study'', whose tenets have ''eternal relevance'', or dismissed him as outdated. Was it really he who made the discovery that warfare is a continuation of politics? Was he the ''Mahdi of mass and mutual massacre'', in part responsible for the mass slaughter of the First World War, as Liddell Hart contended? Can the idea of total war be traced back to him? Complex and often misunderstood, Clausewitz has fascinated and influenced generations of politicians and strategic thinkers. |
Imprint Name: | Pimlico |
Publisher Name: | Vintage |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2002-05-02 |