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On War (Volume One)

by Carl von Clausewitz

Vom Kriege written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. It has been translated into English several times as On War. On War is an unfinished work. Clausewitz had set about revising his accumulated manuscripts in 1827, but did not live to finish the task. His wife edited his collected works and published them between 1832 and 1835.
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On War (Volume One) by Carl von Clausewitz

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English

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German

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1832

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Carl von Clausewitz

Kingdom of Prussia

Clausewitz was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (meaning, in modern terms, psychological) and political aspects of war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege (On War), was...

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