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(Books That Changed the World)
Atlantic Bridge Publishing
July 2007
On Sale: July 10, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0871139561
EAN: 9780871139566
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever
written, Carl von Clausewitz’s On War has influenced
generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for
the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World
Wars, and is required reading at military academies to this
day. But On War, which was never finished and was published
posthumously, is obscure and fundamentally contradictory.
What Clausewitz declares in book 1, he discounts in book 8.
The language is confusing and the relevance not always
clear. For a book that has truly changed the world, On War
is extremely difficult for the general reader to approach,
to reconcile with itself, and to place in context. Hew
Strachan, one of the world’s foremost military historians
answers these problems in this fascinating book. He explains
how and why On War was written, elucidates what Clausewitz
meant, and offers insight into the impact it made on
conflict and its continued significance in our world today.
This is a must read for fans of military history.
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