Training of the Infantry for Offensive Combat

<h2>Available for the first time in English</h2><p>Staff officer author reformer - Louis Loyzeau de Grandmaison was one of France's foremost military thinkers prior to the Great War. Facing him was the ultimate challenge: how to win a war in the 20th Century.</p><p>A key text in what would become known as the Cult of the Offensive this is Grandmaison's attempt to implement the lessons of the Boer and Russo-Japanese wars - to find a way for infantry to survive on a battlefield governed not by rifles and bayonets but by trenches barbed wire and machine guns.</p>