On Wellington: A Critique of Waterloo

by Carl von Clausewitz

Book Overview

The Battle of Waterloo has been studied and dissected so extensively that one might assume little more on the subject could be discovered. Now historian Peter Hofschr?er brings forward a long-repressed commentary written by Carl von Clausewitz, the author of On War.

Clausewitz, the Western world's most renowned military theorist, participated in the Waterloo campaign as a senior staff officer in the Prussian army. His appraisal, offered here...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806169044
• ISBN13: 9780806169040
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"