Rommel's Book: Infantry Attacks

Sometimes you pass through a "discounted" bookstore and a diamond pokes its head of of the dust. I had such a moment yesterday. To be honest I think would probably have paid the RRP as I have wanted this one for a while (see below, the man himself in "action pose"): 

Published in 1937, a certain German Chancellor (Hitler) read it and invited the author for a conversation in 1938 and his patronage was set. In 1944 it was translated into the English language by the Americans (a Major H.A. de Weerd with the immortal quote "this translation was not prepared with the author's sanction" [as he was at that time fighting the Allies in Normandy]). Even the foreword by his son (from 1990) was enlightening with the quote from his father (Rommel) to his son (Manfred): "in order to become a hero one must above all survive"!

German WW2 Infantry Tactics Article

Please see link below:

https://20thcenturywargaming.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/german-infantry-tactics-1932-1945/

Making me rethink how many German companies should be on table for FireMove game (from the srticle):

Abschnitt – Defence Sector: In defence, battalions and companies were assigned permanent sectors, depending on the tactical situation, terrain and weather conditions:

• Bataillonsabschnitt: up to 2000 m frontage and 1000–1500 m depth in defence.
• Kompanieabschnitt: up to 700 m frontage and 400–600 m depth in defence.

Reference or rather re-posting from this web-site:
http://www.miniatures.de/tactics-1932-german-infantry.html

Warsaw Pact (Modern Russian) Armoured Tactics - Article (Very Good Read)

For those interested in the modern (defined post 1970+ Cold War through the 90's [excluding the recent COIN era] and could be said to be coming back into fashion in the 2017+) this article may be most illuminating and frightening (see link below):

Why Cold War Warsaw Pact Tactics Work In Wargaming

Another reason to read it is that it is written by John Curry from the History of Wargaming Project