Books with title Infantry Attacks

First-rate small-unit combat narratives are useful in training troops and leaders but are not very plentiful. The Germans made tremendous efforts to find out why they lost the First World War. Hundreds of books were written analyzing and weighing the experiences of 1914-18. One such book, Infanterie Greift an (Infantry Attacks!), devoted to the experiences of a Wurttemberg mountain infantry battalion, was written in 1937 by an unknown German officer named Erwin Rommel. He was than a lieutenant colonel completing a tour of duty as instructor of infantry tactics at the Dresden Military Academy. Two years earlier he had written a small handbook for platoon and company leaders entitled Aufgaben fur Zug und Kompanie (Problems for the Platoon and Company). Neither of Rommel's books made much of an impression at the time; they were given only perfunctory reviews in German military periodicals, and only a bare mention in British or American military journals.