The Cognitive Challenge of War

Prussia 1806

By:

Peter Paret

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Paperback / softback

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Responding to the enemy's innovation in war presents problems to soldiers and societies of all times. This book traces Napoleon's victory over Prussia in 1806 and Prussia's effort to recover from defeat to show how in one particular historical episode operational analyses together with institutional and political decisions eventually turned defeat

Author Biography:

Peter Paret is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has written widely on the history of war and society and on the relationship of art, society, and politics. He is the author of Clausewitz and the State (Princeton), now in its third revised edition. Most recently he gave the 2008 Lees Knowles Lectures at Cambridge University, on which this book is based, and was guest curator for the spring 2009 exhibition Myth and Modernity at the Princeton University Art Museum.

Release date Australia

August 14th, 2018

Author

Peter Paret

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

176

ISBN-13

9780691183350

Product ID

27759927

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