QPME: The Lessons and Legacy of General John A. Lejeune

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Collection of lessons learned by the author, who served as a small unit infantry commander (German army) during WWI. It includes observations on tactics and psychological reactions of troops in battle.

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash.

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A reprint of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's World War I military classic autobiography, Infanterie Greift An. Rommel traces his development from a “green” Lieutenant to a confident, seasoned and singularly successful Commander. IIt is an important treatise on combat leadership and psychology, containing many valuable lessons for those who would raise and train armies. Prime among these lessons is the reminder that men are the key element in combat; that it is the will, spirit and skill of men, led by competent and courageous officers that win battles; and high morale is developed by the accomplishment of difficult tasks.

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This publication covers small unit tactic as illustrated by examples drawn from WWI. It checks the ideas acquired from peacetime instruction against the experience of battle.

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The United States Army and the German Armed Forces traveled different paths to select, educate, and promote their officers in the crucial time before WWII. The author explores the paradox that in Germany officers came from a closed authoritarian society but received an extremely open minded military education, whereas their counterparts in the United States came from one of the most democratic societies but received an outdated military education that harnessed their minds and limited their initiative. While German officer candidates learned that in war everything is possible and a war of extermination acceptable, American officers, raised in a democracy, learned that certain boundaries could never be crossed.