On War by Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Eliot Howard, Peter Paret

752 pages first pub 1832 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced

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Carl von Clausewitz's On War has been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great book on war." It is an extraordinary attempt to construct an all-embracing theory of how war works. Its coherence and ambition are unmatched by other ...

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