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Article: Faire la guerre: Antoine-Henri Jomini. I. Chronique, Situation, Caractere.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2003
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Jean-Jacques Langendorf. Paris: Ed. Georg, 2002. 416 pp. Euro30.00.
Born in Switzerland in 1779 (a year before Clausewitz), General Jomini lived up to the age of 90. His was an exceptional career, since he served successively France (up to 1813) and Russia. Held in esteem by Napoleon for his theoretical work on the Art of War, he became private tutor of the tsarevitch Alexander in 1837, then personal ...
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