Howard to speak on Clausewitz May 9

["Barbara A. Paulson" <bpau@loc.gov>]

RARE BOOK AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION PRESENTS LECTURE AT THE
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAY 9

Sir Michael Howard will speak on Clausewitz' On War, May 9 at 11 am
at the Library of Congress.  The lecture, which is free and open to the
public, will take place in the Mumford Room, Madison Building (1st St.
and Independence Ave., SE, Washington DC). 

As a specialist in the history of war, Michael Howard was in 1953
appointed the first Lecturer in War Studies at King's College, University
of London, and built its independent department of war studies.  In 1968
he moved to the University of Oxford, where he served as Chichele
Professor of the History of War and as Regius Professor of Modern
History.  From 1989 to 1993 he held the Lovett Chair of Military and
Naval History at Yale University.

Howard was responsible, with Professor Peter Paret of the Institute for
Advanced Studies, for the 1983 translation of Clausewitz' On War which
is now the standard version in English.  Other of his works include
Studies in War and Peace (1970), The Causes of Wars (1983), The
Lessons of History (1991), and The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second
World War (1968, 1993).

This is one of a series of lectures about books that have mattered to
Western citizenship, statecraft and public policy.  The series is presented
by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of
Congress and funded by the Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and by the Library's Center for the Book.  For further 
information, contact Barbara Paulson, (202) 707-1087.