Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. As a leader of a small unit in the First World War, he proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander, with a reputation for using the battleground terrain to his own advantage, for gathering intelligence, and for seeking out and exploiting enemy weaknesses. Rommel graphically describes his own achievements, and those of his units, in the swift-moving battles on the Western Front, in the ensuing trench warfare, in the 1917 campaign in Romania, and in the pursuit across the Tagliamento and Piave rivers. This classic account seeks out the basis of his astonishing leadership skills, providing an indispensable guide to the art of war written by one of its greatest exponents.

    The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston includes "Sherston's Progress" and both "Memoirs,"

    the most genuine account of the lives and adventures of" the pioneer American fighter pilots who flew in the Escadrille Lafayette between May 1916 and February 1918, when, under the aegis of the U.S. Army Air Service, it became the 103rd Aero Squadron.