Quick Training for War

In this fascinating little book, Baden-Powell uses his extensive military experience and memories of service in Africa to distill soldiering down to ''the four C-s'': Courage, Common sense, Cunning and Cheerfulness. With observations gleaned from his campaigns against the Zulus, the Ashanti and the Boers during the period 1876-1910 (and even from conversations with the German Kaiser), B-P discusses all aspects of military service from digging trenches and earth-works to ''inculcating cheerfulness in your men''. This period document gives a unique insight into the mindset of the British officer in 1914; advocating a training system that encapsulated Edwardian values,conventional military thinking and centuries of army tradition. Quick Training For War is a perfect example of the type of war the British expected to fight and which they prepared for in 1914, and it became a standard survival guide for many British troops. Personable in tone, this is the well-intentioned, no-nonsense advice of a seasoned campaigner - albeit an officer more accustomed to scouting on the South African veldt than struggling through Somme mud.>

Product details

• Authors: Baden Powell Robert, Robert Baden-Powell, Baden-Powell Robert, Martin Robson, Robson Martin
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781472837943
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-3794-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 116 mm x 144 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modern warfare, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Military life & institutions, War and defence operations, War & defence operations, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Military institutions, Combat / defence skills and manuals