num_pages: 95
description: Some personal experiences of a junior officer of the German Army with Observations on battle tactics and the psychological reactions on the troops in campaign. Most of the lectures contained in this volume were delivered either to students of the Advanced and Company Officers' classes of the Fort Benning Infantry School or to the officers of the 29th Infantry. In presenting these lectures Captain von Schell is placing his experience in open warfare at the disposal of the American Army. Chapter 1. Battle Psychology; Chapter 2. The First Days of War; Chapter 3. The 14th German Division in the First Battle of the Marne; Chapter 4. Leaving Raw Troops with Battle-tried Veterans; Chapter 5. A Young Company Commander in a Rapidly Changing Situation; Chapter 6. Contrasting Service with Trained and Untrained Troops; Chapter 7. The Borderland Between Open and Trench Warfare; Chapter 8. The Development of the German Army Since the World War; Chapter 9. The Army of the United States.
language: English
title: Battle Leadership
publisher: Marine Corp Assn Bookstore