On Waterloo

Since America's defeat in Vietnam, "On War" ("Vom Kriege"), the magnum opus of the German military philosopher, General Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), has become the basic military theoretical source for all of the American armed services. Clausewitz's treatise on the Waterloo campaign of 1815 stands as a benchmark study of one of the most famous of all military campaigns, by one of the most important of all military scholars. This English translation is accompanied by a detailed response to Clausewitz's study written by the Duke of Wellington - the Iron Duke's only reply to any historian's account of the battle.