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According to Wikipedia, Peter Paret was a German-born American cultural and intellectual historian, whose two principal areas of research were war and the interaction of art and politics from 18th to 20th century Europe. He also wrote on related subjects.

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Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (1987) (557)
Clausewitz and the State (1978) (81)
French revolutionary warfare from Indochina to Algeria : the analysis of a political and military doctrine (1964) (77)
Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times (1985) (73)
Carl Von Clausewitz on War (72)
The military and politics in modern times : on professionals, praetorians, and revolutionary soldiers (1978) (70)
5. Napoleon and the Revolution in War (1986) (31)
Sisyphus, or, The limits of education (1973) (30)
Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power (1993) (30)
French Revolutionary Warfare from Indochina to Algeria (1965) (26)
Persuasive images : posters of war and revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives (1992) (25)
Yorck and the Era of Prussian Reform, 1807-1815 (1966) (24)
Historical and political writings (1992) (24)
The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany (1982) (24)
Guerrillas in the 1960's (1962) (23)
The Cognitive Challenge of War (2009) (23)
The Cognitive Challenge of War: Prussia 1806 (2009) (22)
Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art (1997) (22)
The age of German liberation, 1795-1815 (1977) (21)
Yorck and the era of Prussian reform (1966) (18)
Friction in War (1984) (16)
Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and Magic Intelligence, 1941-1945 (1993) (14)
Limits of Loyalty. (1981) (14)
German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945 (2001) (13)
A Total Weapon of Limited War (1960) (11)
The Genesis of On War (1976) (10)
Internal war and pacification : the Vendée, 1789-1796 (1961) (10)
Education, Politics, and War in the Life of Clausewitz (1968) (9)
Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth-Century Germany (1988) (8)
Schriften-Aufsatze-Studien-Briefe. (1991) (8)
Carl Von Clausewitz: Two Letters on Strategy (1984) (8)
Colonial Experience and European Military Reform at the End of the Eighteenth Century1 (1964) (7)
Clausewitz: A Bibliographical Survey (1965) (6)
The Tschudi Affair (1981) (6)
Hans Delbruck on Military Critics and Military Historians (1966) (5)
Clausewitz in His Time: Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War (2014) (5)
Art, Society, and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1985) (5)
The French Army and la Guerre RéVolutionnaire (1959) (5)
Justifying the Obligation of Military Service (1993) (5)
General Maurice Sarrail, 1856-1929. (1977) (4)
Art and the National Image: The Conflict over Germany's Participation in the St. Louis Exposition (1978) (4)
The Peninsular War, 1807-1814 (1974) (4)
An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 (2003) (4)
Art from the Trenches: America's Uniformed Artists in World War I.@@@War Diary of a Combat Artist. (1992) (3)
Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings (2014) (3)
‘Kolberg’ (1945) as historical film and historical document (1994) (3)
The German Revolution of 1848 and Rethel's Dance of Death (1986) (3)
Literary Censorship as a Source of Historical Understanding: A Comment (1985) (3)
In Quest of the Unknown Clausewitz: A Review@@@Clausewitz and the State. (1977) (3)
The Annales School and the History of War (2009) (3)
Machiavelli, Fichte, and Clausewitz in the Labyrinth of German Idealism (2016) (2)
Geoffrey Parker. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800. (The Lees Knowles Lectures, 1984.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1988. Pp. xvii, 234. $29.95 (1989) (2)
Michael Walzer. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. New York: Basic Books. 1977. Pp. xx, 361. $15.00 (1978) (2)
The Artist as "Staatsburger": Aspects of the Fine Arts and the Prussian State before and during the First World War (1983) (2)
Frederick the Great (1972) (2)
Einstein and Freud's Pamphlet Why War? (2005) (1)
Gerhard Ritter, 1888–1967 (1968) (1)
Frederick the Great: A Profile (1972) (1)
Guerrillas: From The Marine Corps Gazette January 1962 (1962) (1)
CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY IN SOME INTERPRETATIONS BY TOCQUEVILLE AND CLAUSEWITZ (2020) (1)
Two Historians on Defeat in War and Its Causes (2010) (1)
CHAPTER FOUR. Closer Definition of the Military Objective: The Defeat of the Enemy (1989) (1)
Die Kunst, die Macht und das Geld: Zur Kulturgeschichte des kaiserlichen Deutschland 1871–1918 . By Robin Lenman. Translated by Reiner Grundmann. Preface by Marie-Louise von Plessen. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag. 1994. Pp. 176. DM39.80. ISBN 3-593-35-36-X. (1995) (1)
Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare.@@@Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare.@@@Guerrilla Warfare.@@@Joseph P. Morray@@@Guerrillas in the 1960's.@@@Communist Revolutionary Warfare: The Vietminh in Indo-china. (1962) (1)
An Anonymous Letter by Clausewitz on the Polish Insurrection of 1830-1831 (1970) (1)
Three Perspectives on Art as a Force in German History (2001) (1)
From Ideal to Ambiguity: Johannes von Muller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms (2004) (1)
The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War . By Frederic J. Schwartz. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1996. Pp. vii + 262. $50.00. ISBN 0-300-06898-0. (1999) (1)
An Aftermath of the Plot Against Hitler: the Lehrterstrasse Prison in Berlin, 1944–5 (1959) (1)
NATIONALISM AND THE SENSE OF MILITARY OBLIGATION (1970) (1)
Bibliography. 1. A Note on Sources (1967) (0)
Appendix 3. Number and Strengths of Light Infantry Units in the Prussian Army Between 1786 and 1812 (1967) (0)
3. The beginnings of the secession (1980) (0)
Triumph and Disaster of Assimilation: The Painter Max Liebermann (2008) (0)
Soviet Partisans in World War II. Edited by John A. Armstrong. With a foreword by Philip E. Mosely. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1964. Pp. xviii, 792. $12.50.) (1965) (0)
Images as Documents in the History of War (2005) (0)
V. The Reglement of 1812 (1967) (0)
2. German secessions and the eleven (1980) (0)
Understanding War (2020) (0)
Book Review:European Armies and the Conduct of War Hew Strachan (1984) (0)
Amos Perlmutter. The Military and Politics in Modern Times: On Professionals, Praetorians, and Revolutionary Soldiers. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1977. Pp. xix, 335. $15.00 (1978) (0)
Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth-Century Germany. (1990) (0)
Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership. Thomas A. KohutNicholas II: The Last of the Tsars. Marc Ferro , Brian Pearce (1994) (0)
Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbühne and its Circle. By Istvan Deak. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1968. Pp. xii, 346. $9.75.) (1969) (0)
Frederick the Great: A Singular Life, Variably Reflected (2012) (0)
On Victory and Defeat: From On War (1989) (0)
NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS (1967) (0)
1. State and art in Imperial Berlin (1980) (0)
The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and Aestheticism (1984) (0)
NOTE FOR THE 1984 EDITION (2008) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Closer Definition of the Military Objective- Continued: Limited Aims (1989) (0)
Appendix 1. Three Essays on Light Troops and Infantry Tactics by Scharnhorst (1967) (0)
Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History. By Jürgen Kocka (Hanover, University Press of New England, 2010) 162 pp. $85.00 cloth $29.95 paper (2011) (0)
Kenneth Bourne (17 March 1930 - 13 December 1992) (1996) (0)
Review Essay: John Keegan's The Price of Admirality and Popular History@@@The Price of Admirality. (1990) (0)
4. The Conquest of Reality by Theory (2009) (0)
6. TOWARD EXPRESSIONISM (1980) (0)
Karsten Harries. The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and Aestheticism. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1983. Pp. xv, 282. $37.50 (1984) (0)
Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France@@@The Munich Secession (1991) (0)
MANUSCRIPTS, BOOKS, AND PERIODICALS CITED (1980) (0)
Beyond Music: Hindemith's Opera Mathis der Maler as Political Document (2008) (0)
Litteraturlista för SKOP18, Strategic Communication: Philosophy of Science gällande från och med vårterminen 2012 (2012) (0)
Colonial Experience and European Military Reform at the End of the Eighteenth Century (2022) (0)
5. THE SECESSION AS A NATIONAL FORCE (1980) (0)
CHAPTER SIX B. War Is an Instrument of Policy (1989) (0)
War in the Age of Enlightenment, 1700-1789 (review) (2005) (0)
David A. Bell. The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2007. Pp. x, 420. $27.00 (2007) (0)
Crossing Borders (2012) (0)
III. The Last Years of the Old Monarchy (1967) (0)
Between Strategy and Mass Murder: The Third Reich at War (1985) (0)
On War@@@Clausewitz and the State (1978) (0)
2. Violence in Words and Images (2009) (0)
Introduction to the Symposium (1993) (0)
Jonathan Petropoulos. Artists under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany. (2016) (0)
Appendix 2. Statistics on the Social Composition of the Officer Corps in the Prussian Army Between 1789 and 1817 (1967) (0)
evan luard. War in International Society: A Study in International Sociology. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1986. Pp. 468. $32.50 (1989) (0)
Appendix 5. Range, Speed of Fire, Accuracy, and Penetration of Muskets and Rifles (1967) (0)
Bibliography. 2. List of Manuscripts, Books, and Articles Cited (1967) (0)
Paul R. Sweet. Wilhelm von Humboldt: A Biography. Volume 2, 1808–1835. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 1980. Pp. x, 572. $25.00 (1981) (0)
Mennonite German Soldiers: Nation, Religion, and Family in the Prussian East, 1772–1880 . By Mark Jantzen. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, xii + 370 pp. $38.00 paper. (2012) (0)
Appendix 4. Proportion of Light Foot to Line Infantry, and of Light Horse to Heavy Cavalry, in the Prussian Army Between 1786 and 1812 (1967) (0)
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. The Culminating Point of Victory (1989) (0)
Reviews of Books (2004) (0)
THE NEW MILITARY HISTORY (1991) (0)
Berlin-Sedan-Paris (1962) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Apocalypse in Germany Klaus Vondung, Stephan D. Ricks (2002) (0)
Art as Politics in the Third Reich . By Jonathan Petropoulos. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp xviii + 439. Illustrations, Index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-2240-X. (1996) (0)
Literature for SKOP18, Strategic Communication: Philosophy of Science applies from spring semester 2012 (2012) (0)
Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History (review) (2011) (0)
CHAPTER SIX A. The Effect of the Political Aim on the Military Objective (1989) (0)
Book Review:Zabern 1913: Consensus Politics in Imperial Germany David Schoenbaum (1983) (0)
AN UNKNOWN LETTER BY CLAUSEWITZ (1991) (0)
Professor Paret Replies (1971) (0)
Book Review: A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern (2007) (0)
david c. large and william weber, editors. Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics. Assisted by anne dzamba sessa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. 361. Cloth $34.50, paper $14.95 (1985) (0)
Assignments New and Old (1971) (0)
IV. Defeat and Reorganization (1967) (0)
4. GERMAN IMPRESSIONISM AND THE CONFLICT OVER ART AT SAINT LOUIS (1980) (0)
[A FURTHER CASE OF PAROTID TUBERCULOSIS CURED BY MEDICAL TREATMENT]. (1964) (0)
Books Received (2004) (0)
The History of Armed Power (2007) (0)
1. Two Battles (2009) (0)
Book Review:Philosophers of Peace and War: Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engels and Tolstoy W. B. Gallie (1979) (0)
Prophets, Paupers, or Professionals? A Social History of Everyday Visual Artists in Modern Germany, 1850–Present (2006) (0)
The German Werkbund: The Politics of Reform in the Applied Arts@@@Die Berliner Secession (1979) (0)
Laird Mcleod Easton. The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler. (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, number 30.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 497. $35.00 (2006) (0)
From the Past to the Future through the Present: Conversations with Historians at the Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton, N.J: Institute for Advanced Study, 1992. (1992) (0)
Comment on Gray (2012) (0)
A NOTE ON SOURCES (1980) (0)
3. Responses and Reform (2009) (0)
Hans Delbrück. History of the Art of War within the Framework of Political History. Volume 1, Antiquity. Translated from the German by Walter J. Renfroe, Jr. (Contributions in Military History, number 9.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1975. Pp. 604. $25.00 (1976) (0)
II. The Frederician Age (1967) (0)

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