The Art of Strategy: Napoleon's Maxims of War + Clausewitz's On War : The Art of War in 19th Century Europe

The Military Maxims of Napoleon will provide the reader with the very essence of the Napoleonic art of war. This book is a collection of maxims which directed the military operations of the greatest captain of modern times, Napoleon Bonaparte. This extraordinary collection shades light to the period of French domination over Europe, which was build on Napoleon's great military and political skills.

On War is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and influential on strategic thinking. It was written by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830. Clausewitz had set about revising his accumulated manuscripts, but did not live to finish the task. On War represents his theoretical explorations. Clausewitz analyzed the conflicts of his time along the line of the categories Purpose, Goal and Means. He reasoned that the Purpose of war is one's will to be enforced, which is determined by politics. The Goal of the conflict is therefore to defeat the opponent in order to exact the Purpose. The Goal is pursued with the help of a strategy that might be brought about by various Means such as by the defeat or the elimination of opposing armed forces or by non-military Means (such as propaganda, economic sanctions and political isolation). Thus, any resource of the human body and mind and all the moral and physical powers of a state might serve as Means to achieve the set goal.

  1. Napoleon's Maxims of War : The Officer's Manual

    Napoleon Bonaparte

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  2. Develop your General Culture in 1000 Quotes

    Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Confucius, Albert Einstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, William Shakespeare, Sun Tzu, Laozi

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  3. 3500 Final Quotes

    Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Beaumarchais, Napoleon Bonaparte, Buddha, Winston Churchill, Cicero, Confucius, Nicolas de Chamfort, Charles de Gaulle, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Denis Diderot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anne Frank, Mahatma Gandhi, Immanuel Kant, Sören Kierkegaard, Martin Luther King, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Abraham Lincoln, Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Marcel Proust, Arthur Schopenhauer, William Shakespeare, Socrates, Baruch Spinoza, Henry David Thoreau, Leonardo da Vinci, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, Laozi

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  4. 600 Quotes from Major Leaders

    Marcus Aurelius, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln

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  5. Clisson and Eugénie : A Love Story

    Napoleon Bonaparte

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  6. Napoleon's Maxims of War : The Officer's Manual

    Napoleon Bonaparte

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  7. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine : Love, War, and Affection: A Glimpse into Napoleon's Heart

    Napoleon Bonaparte

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  8. The Collected Works of Napoleon Bonaparte : Life & Legacy of the Great French Emperor: Biography, Memoirs & Personal Writings

    Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ida M. Tarbell, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Downer Hazen

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  9. The Art of Strategy: Napoleon's Maxims of War + Clausewitz's On War : The Art of War in 19th Century Europe

    Carl von Clausewitz, Napoleon Bonaparte

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  10. Napoleon's Maxims of War : The Officer's Manual

    Napoleon Bonaparte

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  11. The Rise and Fall of Napoleon : The Essential Historical Works on Napoleonic Wars, Biographies of Commanders, Memoirs of Soldiers

    Napoleon Bonaparte, Carl von Clausewitz, Charles Downer Hazen, Alexandre Dumas, Comte Philippe-Paul de Ségur, Frederic Shoberl, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, S. E. Winbolt, Charles Dalton, Marcelin Marbot, Adrien Bourgogne, Moyle Sherer, Robert Southey, William Lawrence, William Surtees, John Kincaid, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Louis Antoine de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy, William Milligan Sloane

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  12. Napoleonic Wars in History & Memories : Histories of Campaigns and Battles (Including Biographies, Letters and Memoirs of the Leading Commanders)

    Napoleon Bonaparte, Carl von Clausewitz, Charles Downer Hazen, Alexandre Dumas, Comte Philippe-Paul de Ségur, Frederic Shoberl, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, S. E. Winbolt, Charles Dalton, Marcelin Marbot, Adrien Bourgogne, Moyle Sherer, Robert Southey, William Lawrence, William Surtees, John Kincaid, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Louis Antoine de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy, William Milligan Sloane

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