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ON-LINE TEXTS

1. Carl von Clausewitz, Hinterlassene Werke des Generals Carl von Clausewitz über Krieg und Kriegführung, all 10 vols. (Berlin 1832-1837). Links to all 10 volumes of Clausewitz's collected works in the original German. (Vols. 1-3 constitute On War.) These links go to PDF versions from Google Books. The content-management system Google uses can be very confusing, sometimes making it hard to locate/download a particular item, but all of the texts are in fact there. Even though the visible text is in the old and difficult-to-read Fraktur typeface, the text has in most cases been fairly accurately OCRed, so useful text in modern type can be extracted via cut&paste.

2. The German original text of Carl von Clausewitz, Vom Kriege (Berlin: Dümmlers Verlag, 1832). This modern, mobile-compatible on-line version appears to be the complete first German edition; we've included a single-file version designed for scholarly search and research.

3. A French translation is Theorie de la grande guerre, trans. Lt-Colonel de Vatry, 3 vols., Paris: L. Baudoin, 1886-1887.

4. Carl von Clausewitz, Der Feldzug von 1815 in Frankreich, 2nd edition (Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler's Verlagsbuchhandlung, Harrwiß und Goßmann, 1862). This is a transcription made for research purposes and contains a large number of typographical errors. A PDF in the original Fraktur typeface is here.

5. Christopher Bassford, Daniel Moran, and Gregory W. Pedlow, eds./trans., On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington, and the Campaign of 1815 (ClausewitzStudies.org, 2010). This on-line edition of the printed book contains Wellington's initial battle report; two of Clausewitz's post-battle letters to his wife Marie; correspondence within Wellington's circle concerning Clausewitz's work; a complete, modern (2010) translation of Clausewitz's 1815 campaign study; Wellington's 1842 memorandum in response; and enlightening essays by the editors. The original German text is listed immediately above.

6. Carl von Clausewitz, Principles of War, trans. Hans Gatzke (Harrisburg, PA: The Military Service Publishing Company, 1942). Principles of War (1812) is NOT a summary of On War (1832) but a distant and quite different precursor (written in 1812). We also have the 1873 translation by J.J. Graham. The original text is Die wichtigsten Grundsätze des Kriegführens zur Ergänzung meines Unterrichts bei Sr. Königlichen Hoheit dem Kronprinzen, which was published as an appendix to Vom Kriege, vol. 3.

7. The original German text, "Skizze eines Plans zur Taktik oder Gefechtslehre" ["Sketch of a plan for tactics or combat theory"] was also published as an appendix to Vom Kriege, vol. 3.is exerpted on the ClausewitzStudies.org website from Carl von Clausewitz, Vom Kriege, Bd. 3. Berlin, 1834, extracted and somewhat reformatted from the version in the German Text Archive. An English translation entitled "Sketch of a Plan For Tactics, Or the Theory of the Combat Guide to Tactics, Or the Theory of the Combat" can be found in a posting of the Graham translation at "The Online Library of Liberty." NOTE: The information provided at that URL concerning the author (i.e., Clausewitz) and especially on the translation, the translator (Col. J.J. Graham), and the much later editor (Col. Frederick Natusch Maude), is full of errors.

8. Carl von Clausewitz, trans/ed Peter Paret and Daniel Moran, Two Letters on Strategy (Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute, 1984). The CSI website constantly changes its link structure, making it difficult to maintain working links. If you have difficulty finding it on CSI's website, try our local backup.

9. Clausewitz, Carl von. Über das Leben und den Charakter von Scharnhorst, aus dem Nachlasse des General Clausewitz, in Historisch-politische Zeitschrift, herausgegeben von Leoplold Ranke, (Berlin, 1832). (About 10mb, PDF) This is a handy way to view the text. However, the provider's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system has done an extraordinarily poor job of recognizing Fraktur characters and it is impossible to extract useable text.

10. Carl von Clausewitz, The Campaign of 1812 in Russia, trans. anonymous [Francis Egerton, Lord Ellesmere] (London: J. Murray, 1843). From Carl von Clausewitz, Hinterlassene Werke des Generals Carl von Clausewitz über Krieg und Kriegführung, 10 vols., Berlin, 1832-37, Vol. 7: "Der Feldzug von 1812 in Russland," Berlin, 1835. (This English text does not include "Der Feldzug von 1813 bis zum Waffenstillstand" or "Der Feldzug von 1814 in Frankreich," which are contained in the original volume 7.)

11. Excerpts from Carl von Clausewitz, "Notes On Prussia In Her Grand Catastrophe of 1806," in Jena Campaign Sourcebook (Fort Leavenworth: The General Service Schools Press, 1922). Translated by COL [US Army] Conrad H. Lanza. Based on Clausewitz's Nachrichten über Preussen in seiner grossen Katastrophe, in Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Berlin, 1888. Most sections not provided by Lanza can be found in Carl von Clausewitz, "Observations on Prussia in her Great Catastrophe," in Historical and Political Writings, eds./trans. Peter Paret and Daniel Moran (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), pp.30-84. The published document from which Lanza worked, however, was quite different from Clausewitz's original manuscripts.

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