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1	Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. see all copies from £10.59! new only from £18.86! \| first editions
2	Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist These essays provide an introduction to Carl von Clausewitz and enlarge the history of war by joining it to the history of ideas and institutions and linking it with intellectual biography. Reflecting Peter Paret's three decades of study of Clausewitz and of the history of war, they examine Clausewitz's theoretical work in the context of his time ... see all copies from £10.53! new only from £21.16!
3	Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives more books like this by Peter Paret, Paul Paret, Beth Irwin Lewis add to wishlist With powerful, often shocking immediacy, the 317 posters reproduced and discussed in this volume document the political and military conflicts of our century. These works reveal their meaning most clearly when we do not relegate them to the function of illustrating a text or see them merely as specimens of the applied arts, but take them seriously ... see all copies from £21.78! new only from £54.83! \| first editions
4	An Artist Against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist Paret, author of GERMAN ENCOUNTERS WITH MODERNISM, examines the ways in which art collided with nationalism under the evolving Nazi regime. Using the then heralded German Expressionist sculptor Ernst Barlach as a centerpiece, AN ARTIST AGAINST THE THIRD REICH recounts how Nazi Germany assumed control over the arts for propaganda purposes and how ... see all copies from £6.60! new only from £8.72! \| first editions
5	German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945 more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist In German Encounters with Modernism, Peter Paret traces the reception of modern art, from the 1840s through the Nazi era, through the lens of social and political developments in Germany. Addressing broad cultural topics, such as the early history of Expressionism, the role of anti-Semitism in German reactions to modernism, the impact of World War ... see all copies from £7.17! new only from £8.10!
6	Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist Originally published in 1976, "Clausewitz and the State" presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. Peter Paret combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical and political writing. This timely ... see all copies from £6.45! new only from £16.26!
7	Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist For thousands of years, art has interpreted the experience of war - its methods, human costs and moral ambiguities - and has offered historians a wealth of testimony that is only beginning to be systematically explored. In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses 47 paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the ... see all copies from £11.84! new only from £14.12! \| first editions
8	Clausewitz and the state more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £6.85! first editions
9	Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth-Century Germany more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist Paintings and graphics, novels and poems are historical sources as well as aesthetic objects. Artists themselves become historians when they interpret the pastby painting a historical scene, for instance, or by discussing earlier times in a novel. Artists both reflect and shape their environment. These concepts underlie Peter Parets new study of ... see all copies from £8.21! new only from £66.05! \| first editions
10	The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £11.49! signed copies \| first editions
11	Historical and Political Writings more books like this by Carl Von Clausewitz, Clausewitz Carl Von, Peter Paret (Editor) add to wishlist Carl von Clausewitz's major theoretical work, On War, has retained its freshness and relevance since it first appeared 160 years ago. Clausewitz was also a wide-ranging, innovative historian--his acerbic history of Prussia before 1806 became an underground classic long before it could be published--and a combative political essayist, whose ... see all copies from £24.30! first editions
12 view cover	The Cognitive Challenge of War: Prussia 1806 more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist 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 analysis together with institutional and political decisions eventually turned defeat ... see all copies from £8.73! new only from £11.35!
13	Guerrillas in the 1960's. more books like this by Peter Paret, John Willard Shy add to wishlist see all copies from £6.86! first editions
14	Frederick the Great: A Profile more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £1.85! first editions
15	Causewitz & the State more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £5.02!
16	John Hans Ostwald, architect more books like this by Hans Ostwald, Donald Reay, Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £48.79!
17	Yorck and the era of the Prussian reform, 1807-1815. more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £76.02!
18	Innovation and reform in warfare. more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £13.09!
19	"The enemy within"--Max Liebermann as president of the Prussian Academy of Arts more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £11.22!
20	Berliner Sezession. by Peter Paret, Maria-Luise von Graberg, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein add to wishlist see all copies from £31.84!
21	French revolutionary warfare from Indochina to Algeria : the analysis of a political and military doctrine. more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist see all copies from £38.01! first editions

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