Originally Published by
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York • Oxford
1994

Click image at left for more background. Includes: * Book description and table of contents * Reviews by Dennis Showalter, Antulio Echevarria, Ralph Peters,    James Schneider, Azar Gat, Richard Swain, Eliot Cohen "[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

1. Introduction

 
2. Clausewitz and His Works (Fuller and Updated Version, 2002) (Original)

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

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

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

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.

See also Word Index to On War (the 1984 Howard/Paret edition).

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