Carl von Clausewitz

Author profile

born

July 01, 1780 in Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany

died

November 16, 1831

gender

male

website

http://www.clausewitz.com/

genre

History

About this author

edit data

Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War.

Clausewitz has served in the Rhine campaign (1793–1794), when the Prussian army invaded France during the French revolution and in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

Clausewitz helped negotiate the Convention of Tauroggen where Russia, Prussia and the United Kingdom formed an coalition that later defeated Napoleon Bonaparte.

combine editions
Books by Carl von Clausewitz

Average rating: 3.89 · 1,724 ratings · 110 reviews · 19 distinct works

	On War by Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Eliot Howard (Editor), Peter Paret (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 1,581 ratings — published 1832 — 106 editions	My rating:
	Principles of War by Carl von Clausewitz, Germund Wilhelm Dahlquist 3.67 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	On War Abridged 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings	My rating:
	Clausewitz on Strategy: Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist by Carl von Clausewitz, Bolko von Oetinger (Editor), Christopher Bassford (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Russian Campaign of 1812 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions	My rating:
	On the Nature of War by Carl von Clausewitz, John Minford (Translator), D.C. Lau (Translator) 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Essential Clausewitz: Selections from On War by Carl von Clausewitz, Joseph I. Greene (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	War, Politics, and Power: Selections from on War, and I Believe and Profess by Carl von Clausewitz, Edward M. Collins (Translator), Karl von Clausewitz 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Wellington: A Critique of Waterloo by Carl von Clausewitz, Peter Hofschroer (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington, And The Campaign Of 1815 by Carl von Clausewitz, Arthur Wellesley, Christopher Bassford (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:

More books by Carl von Clausewitz…

Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz

“Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.”
― Carl von Clausewitz

tags: darkest-hour , intellect , light , the-way , truth

13 people liked it

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult”
― Carl von Clausewitz

12 people liked it

“No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.”
― Carl von Clausewitz

tags: carl-von-clausewitz , von-kriege

9 people liked it

See all Carl von Clausewitz's quotes »

Polls

Which of the following books would you like to read as our next Classic Chunkster?

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

10 votes, 28.6%

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

6 votes, 17.1%

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

6 votes, 17.1%

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

6 votes, 17.1%

Ulysses by James Joyce

5 votes, 14.3%

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

1 vote, 2.9%

Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset

1 vote, 2.9%

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

0 votes, 0.0%

On War by Carl von Clausewitz

0 votes, 0.0%

35 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Explore World War...: Manuals of War	12	25	Apr 23, 2010 05:33pm
Napoleonic Wars: Books on Napoleon's Campaigns	13	10	May 13, 2011 12:42am
Napoleonic Wars: Good books covering the Napoleonic Wars	15	47	Jun 17, 2011 10:25pm
The History Book ...: HOW WAR IS WAGED - MANUALS OF WAR	54	110	Feb 24, 2012 07:23am
Reading the Chunk...: Classic Chunkster Nominations	44	54	May 18, 2012 10:12am
The History Book ...: * GETTING ACQUAINTED	79	227	May 30, 2012 01:38pm

More…

Carl's Fans (21)

Carl von Clausewitz

Author profile

combine editionsBooks by Carl von Clausewitz

Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

combine editions
Books by Carl von Clausewitz