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The Reception
of Clausewitz
in Britain and America,
1815-1945
by
Christopher
Bassford
Notes
on Author
Originally
Published by
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York •
Oxford
1994
Copyright
Christopher Bassford
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Christopher Bassford, Clausewitz
in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
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Click image at left for more background. Includes:
*Book description and table of
contents
* Positive reviews by Dennis Showalter,
Antulio Echevarria, Ralph Peters,
James Schneider, Richard Swain, Eliot Cohen.
*Negative review by Azar Gat—and
the author's response.
"[A]
startlingly worthwhile book.... Bassford tells a great
story of dutiful struggle and pigheadedness, of petty
revenge and epiphany, and, ultimately, of how Anglophone
armies that read Clausewitz reluctantly beat the hell
out of a German-speaking military that willfully read
him wrong." Ralph
Peters
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part I. Clausewitz in English to 1873: Present But Not
Accounted For
Introduction to Part I
3. Clausewitz in Great Britain before 1873
4. Clausewitz in America
5. The English Translation of On War
6. Assessment, 1815-1873
Part II. To the First Golden Age of Clausewitz Studies
in English: 1874-1914
Introduction to Part II
7. Prelude: the Study of Clausewitz before
the South African War
8. In the Wake of the South African War
9. Major British Military Writers
10. German, French, and British Interpretations
of Clausewitz
11. The Sea Power Theorists
12. Assessment, 1873-1914
Part III. The Apostle of Total War: 1914-1945
Introduction to Part III
13. Clausewitz during World War One
Robert M. Johnston
T.D. Pilcher
14. The Clouding of Clausewitz's Reputation
15. J.F.C. Fuller and Basil Liddell
Hart
Liddell Hart
Fuller
Wilkinson on Liddell Hart
and Clausewitz
16. Clausewitz's British Proponents
17. The Airpower Theorists
18. Clausewitz and the Americans
The U.S. Army's Schools
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The U.S. Navy
Hoffman Nickerson
John McAuley Palmer
Other American Writers
Observations
19. New German Influences: Delbrück
and the German Expatriates
Delbrück
The German Expatriates
Observations
20. Assessment, 1914-1945
Part IV. Conclusions
21. Since 1945
Continuing Hostility to
Clausewitz
New Sources of Interest
The Influence of Scholars
Contrary Currents
22. Some Final Thoughts (1993)
Notes (embedded as links in individual
chapters, above)
Bibliographies
This is a list of bibliographies in several languages
(English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish/Portuguese, and Other)
and in the area of Complexity and Nonlinear science. The English-language
bibliography includes all of the listings from the original printing
of Clausewitz in English, but is updated to the present, including
links to many items on-line.
Index (to the
printed 1994 edition)
See also Word Index to On War
(the 1984 Howard/Paret edition).
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