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US Army Command and General Staff College [Published Date: 1988] Paper covers, 72 pp. Reprint. Originally published in Infantry Journal (now Army), April 1905.
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In very good condition with light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing, fading and soiling to covers. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations [From back cover] A classic in small unit tactics in the British and U.S. Army, this book is recommended, without qualification, for the modern professional soldier. What would you do? Lieutenant Backsight Forethought (BF to his friends) has been left in command of a 50 - man reinforced platoon to hold Duffer's Drift, the only ford on the Silliassvogel River available to wheeled traffic. Here is his chance for fame and glory. He has passed his officer courses and special qualifications. "Now if they had given me a job," says BF, "like fighting the Battle of Waterloo, or Gettysburg or Bull Run, I knew all about that, as I had crammed it up . . ."While BF's task appears simple enough, the Boer enemy causes a multitude of problems, but you, astute reader, with a quick mind and sharp intellect will, no doubt, solve the problem before the first shot is fired. [From Prologue] Upon an evening after a long and tiring trek, I arrived at Dreamdorp. The local atmosphere, combined with a heavy meal, are responsible for the following nightmare, consisting of a series of dreams. To make the sequence of the whole intelligible, it is necessary to explain that, though the scene of each vision was the same, yet by some curious mental process I had no recollection of the place whatsoever. In each dream the locality was totally new to me, and I had an entirely fresh detachment. Thus I had not the great advantage of working over familiar ground. One thing, and one only, was carried on from dream to dream, and that was the vivid recollection of the general lessons previously learnt. These finally produced success.The whole series of dreams, however, remained in my memory as a connected whole when I awoke.