The Defence of Duffer's Drift - Softcover

Forethought, Lt. Backsight

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941656439 ISBN 13: 9781941656433

Verlag: Dale Street Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

A classic in small unit tactics in the British and U.S. Army, this book is recommended by the Commandant of the U.S. Army Infantry School "for the modern professional soldier." It is a thoroughly enjoyable read--witty, suspenseful AND instructive. The "hero" is Lieutenant Backsight Forethought (BF to his friends), who has been left in command of a 50-man reinforced platoon to hold Duffer’s Drift, the only ford on the Silliaasvogel 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, which he (and you as you follow his predicaments) needs to solve. BF eventually gets there, but not before he makes a series of tactical errors along the way. He learns, as does the reader, what errors to avoid in the future.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Dale Street Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1941656439
• ISBN 13: 9781941656433
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 86