Contents

    List of Illustrations

    Acknowledgments

    Abbreviations Used in the Notes

    Author’s Note

    Introduction: The Point of It All

  1. Boy Soldier (1780–1795)

  2. The Ambitious Student of War (1795–1805)

  3. Clausewitz at War: The 1806 Campaign

  4. A Political Education (1807–1812)

  5. War and Words: The Campaign of 1812

  6. The Road to Tauroggen (1812)

  7. 1813: War, Uprising, and Armistice

  8. 1813: Leipzig, Göhrde, and the Stecknitz

  9. Clausewitz and the Fall of Napoleon (1813–1814)

10. 1815: The Waterloo Campaign

11. The Sum of It All (1815–1831)

    Conclusion: Clausewitz’s Legacy

    Appendix: Clausewitz’s Battles

    Notes

    Select Bibliography

    Index