What it's about

Napoleon's interpreter: the Swiss general who reduced the emperor's campaigns to principles of strategy, lines of operation and decisive points, and taught them to both armies of the American Civil War.

Reading plan

Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.

Read together

Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.

Who it's for

- Readers of Clausewitz wanting his great rival - Students of Napoleonic and Civil War campaigns - Anyone interested in how strategy became a science

What’s inside

1
CHAPTER I. THE RELATION OF DIPLOMACY TO WAR.
1 min
2
CHAPTER II. MILITARY POLICY.
1 min
3
CHAPTER III. STRATEGY.
1 min
4
CHAPTER IV. GRAND TACTICS AND BATTLES.
1 min
5
CHAPTER V. SEVERAL OPERATIONS OF A MIXED CHARACTER, WHICH ARE PARTLY IN
1 min
6
CHAPTER VII. FORMATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF TROOPS FOR BATTLE.
1 min
7
CHAPTER I.
38 min
8
CHAPTER II.
45 min
9
CHAPTER III.
179 min
10
Volume IV. of my History of the Wars of the Revolution. Forty
1 min
11
CHAPTER IV.
20 min
12
Chapter VII. of Treatise on Grand Operations.)
42 min
13
CHAPTER V.
58 min
14
CHAPTER VI.
40 min
15
CHAPTER VII.
166 min

The Art of War

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The Art of War

What it's about

Reading plan

Read together

Who it's for

What’s inside

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