On War (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)

xxxi, [1], 641, [5] pp. 8vo. Translated by O.J. Matthijs Jolles, with a foreword by Colonel Joseph I. Greene and a preface by Richard McKeon. Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise "On War" has had a profound influence on subsequent thinking on warfare. It is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen, and intellectuals.