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Beatrice Heuser is Professor of at the University of the German Federal Armed Forces, Munich.

Michael Howard is a Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.

Peter Paret is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at the Institute of Advance Studies, Princeton.

This edition first published by Routledge & Kegan Paul 1968.
This sturdy library-bound set reprints the most famous work of the great Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) . The three volumes comprising his influential treatise On War, reveal war stripped of all accessories, as the exercise of force for the attainment of a political object, unrestrained by any law save that of expediency. An essential work for all military studies collections.

The New Republic

Undoubtedly one of the most useful books ever written.

Introduction     vii
Note on the Text     xxxiii
Select Bibliography     xxxv
A Chronology of Clausewitz and European Conflicts     xxxix
On War     1
Complete Contents List of On War     266
Explanatory Notes     271
Index     281