{"product_id":"the-cognitive-challenge-of-war-9780691183350","title":"The Cognitive Challenge of War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peter Paret's small book is masterfully constructed. He has set out to 'consider specific events' without losing sight of the general issues they exemplify.\"\u003cb\u003e---Thomas Rid, \u003ci\u003eWeekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Given the importance of the topic and Paret's exceptional expertise, his new book on 1806 must arouse considerable interest. . . . If this handsome little book does not fulfill the need for a comprehensive study of the Prussian reform, it does provide a brief, intelligent, and artful recapitulation of some of the period's major themes.\"\u003cb\u003e---Eugenia C. Kiesling, \u003ci\u003eMichigan War Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Cognitive Challenge of War\u003c\/i\u003e offers a welcome alternative to the usual historiographic ping-pong about the War of the Fourth Coalition. . . . Rather than weighing in on the traditional arguments about skirmishers and linear tactics or the corps d'armee system, Peter Paret has offered an intriguing bridge between social history and military history.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sam A. Mustafa, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[E]xperts of the subject and readers of Paret's earlier works will not find many new insights in this short book, but for them and for everybody who is interested in the subject, it offers an excellent and elegantly written overview on Prussia in 1806 and the responses to the defeat of its army.\"\u003cb\u003e---Karen Hagemann, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Central European History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable study for anyone interested in the Napoleonic era, military reform, or the Prusso-German military experience.\"\u003cb\u003e---A. A. Nofi, \u003ci\u003eStrategy Page\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his book is a major achievement that few historians could even have tried to undertake, and the reader will be richly rewarded by the unusually comprehensive perspective and the many compelling insights. Anybody interested in Prussian history of the nineteenth century, Napoleonic military history, military and strategic theory, or the history of military innovation will find the price well worth paying.\"\u003cb\u003e---Claus Telp, \u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paret writes profoundly on the Prussian military reforms and on the ideas that underpinned them. . . . His greatest success . . . is in revealing [the] linkage . . . between the ideas of the military reformers, Clausewitz amongst them, and the broader cultural trends at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael Rowe, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Review of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paret's achievement in this elegant extended essay is to show how \u003ci\u003eOn War\u003c\/i\u003e emerged not just from the wreckage of Jena-Auerstadt, but also from the political, social, artistic, and literary context in which it was conceived.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alex Roland, \u003ci\u003eISIS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403864908119,"sku":"9780691183350","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691183350.jpg?v=1730484751","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cognitive-challenge-of-war-9780691183350","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}