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(0)Hew Strachan
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English
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Ninety years have passed since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative new book, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. A truly global conflict from the start, the war and many of its most decisive battles were fought in or directly affected the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. Even more than the Second World War, the First World War continues...
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English
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Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is required reading at military academies to this day. But On War, which was never finished and was published posthumously, is obscure and fundamentally contradictory. What Clausewitz declares in book one, he...
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Landmark Audiobooks
Pub. Date
�2007
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English
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A military historian offers a study of Carl von Clausewitz's landmark work on military strategy, first published in Germany following the Napoleonic Wars, analyzing the often confusing text of the book and assessing its continued influence on the history of modern warfare.
