Posts Tagged Berlin
My Own Private Soave
Posted by VanyaB1877 in Travel on 10 February 2015
Dear readers, I have fallen off the face of the earth in the last eight night months but I have very good reasons for it. We moved to Italy. Then while still staying in a hotel and looking for a place to live, Oxford University Press-USA offered me a book deal. This significantly speeded up the [...]
Where did Carl and Marie von Clausewitz live in Berlin?
Posted by VanyaB1877 in Travel on 22 July 2013
In 1818, Clausewitz was appointed director of the Allgemeine Kriegsschule (General War College), later called Kriegsakademie (Prussian Military Academy). He served there until 1830. Carl and Marie von Clausewitz now moved in an apartment in the same building. When historians talk about the Prussian Kriegsakademie, they usually have in mind its later location on Unter [...]
My Clausewitz Summer Tour
Posted by VanyaB1877 in Travel on 22 July 2013
I do believe that seeing places firsthand gives a special vigor and sensibility to a story. So this summer, in order to understand and describe better Marie and Carl von Clausewitz’s story, I decided to travel through Germany. Some of the places I know very well, some are new to me. I lived in Berlin [...]
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