Publisher's Synopsis
The five books set in The Great Military Classics . Reveries on the Art of War. In this book the war is a science covered with shadow in whose obscurity one cannot move with an assured step. Routine and prejudice, the natural result of ignorance, are its foundation and support. The Defence of Duffer's Drift. This tale of a dream is dedicated to the gilded Popinjays and hired Assassins of the British nation, especially those who are nor knocking at the door, to wit the very junior. Defence. The principles of conduct of war and conduct of combat as expounded in this book by Field Marshal General Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb were written only a few years before the present war. Generalship Its Diseases and Cure: War with impersonal leadership is a brutal soul-destroying business, provocative only of class animosity and bad workmanship. The senior officers must get back to sharing danger and sacrifice with their men, however exalted their rank, just as sailors have to do. Surprise, in Clausewitz opinion, is a product of secrecy and speed. It is of extreme Importance to hide one's own plans form the enemy until he is unable to take effective counter-measure. The five books set in The Great Military Classics . Reveries on the Art of War. In this book the war is a science covered with shadow in whose obscurity one cannot move with an assured step. Routine and prejudice, the natural result of ignorance, are its foundation and support. The Defence of Duffer's Drift. This tale of a dream is dedicated to the gilded Popinjays and hired Assassins of the British nation, especially those who are nor knocking at the door, to wit the very junior. Defence. The principles of conduct of war and conduct of combat as expounded in this book by Field Marshal General Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb were written only a few years before the present war. Generalship Its Diseases and Cure: War with impersonal leadership is a brutal soul-destroying business, provocative only of class animosity and bad workmanship. The senior officers must get back to sharing danger and sacrifice with their men, however exalted their rank, just as sailors have to do. Surprise, in Clausewitz opinion, is a product of secrecy and speed. It is of extreme Importance to hide one's own plans form the enemy until he is unable to take effective counter-measure.
