On Wellington by Carl von Clausewitz, Peter Hofschroer - 9780806169040

On WellingtonA Critique of Waterloo\nAuthor(s): Carl von Clausewitz, Peter Hofschroer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806169040, 978-0806169040\nSynopsis\nThe Battle of Waterloo has been studied and dissected so extensively that one might assume little more on the subject could be discovered. Now historian Peter Hofschrer brings forward a long-repressed commentary written by Carl von Clausewitz, the author of On [url] the Western worlds most renowned military theorist, participated in the Waterloo campaign as a senior staff officer in the Prussian army. His appraisal, offered here in an up-to-date and readable translation, criticized the Duke of Wellingtons actions. Lord Liverpool sent his translation of the manuscript to Wellington, who pronounced it a lying work. The translated commentary was quickly buried in Wellingtons private papers, where it languished for a century and a half. Now .