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Book Synopsis"Contains selections from Clausewitz's historical writings and the majority of his essays and notes on political topics"--Preface.
Trade ReviewFinalist for the 1993 Translation Prize, PEN American Center "This is a splendid collection of Clausewitz's historical and political writings, superbly translated and brilliantly edited... No serious student of history, politics, and war should miss this admirable book."--Infantry
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF MAPS, pg. ix*PREFACE, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xv*LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xvii*INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE, pg. 3*1. "Some Comments on the War of the Spanish Succession after Reading the Letters of Madame de Maintenon to the Princess des Ursins" (1826 or later), pg. 15*2. Observations on the Wars of the Austrian Succession" (early 1820s), pg. 19*3. From Observations on Prussia in Her Great Catastrophe (1823-1825), pg. 30*4. "On the Life and Character of Scharnhorst" (1817), pg. 85*5. From The Campaign of 1812 in Russia (1823-1825), pg. 110*6. From "Strategic Critique of the Campaign of 1814 in France" (early 1820s), pg. 205*INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO, pg. 223*7. Notes on History and Politics (1803-1807), pg. 237*8. "The Germans and the French" (1807), pg. 250*9. Notes on History and Politics (1807-1809), pg. 263*10. Letter to Fichte (1809), pg. 279*11. From the "Political Declaration" (1812), pg. 285*12. On the German Federal Army (1818), pg. 304*13. "Our Military Institutions" (1819) In, pg. 313*14. "On the Political Advantages and Disavantages of the Prussian Landwehr" (1819), pg. 329*15. "Agitation" (early 1820s), pg. 335*16. 'Europe since the Polish Partitions' (1831), pg. 369*17. "On the Basic Question of Germany's Existence" (1831), pg. 377*Index, pg. 385
