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General Fritz von Lossberg (1868--1942) directed virtually all the
major German defensive battles on the Western Front during the
First World War. Hailed as "the Lion of the Defensive," he was an
extremely influential military tactician and, unlike many other
operations officers of his era, was quick to grasp the changes
wrought by technology. Now available for the first time in English,
Lossberg's memoir explains how he developed, tested, and
implemented his central principles -- flexibility, decentralized
control, and counterattack -- which were based on a need to adapt
to shifting conditions on the battlefield. Lossberg first put his
theory of elastic defense combined with defense-in-depth into
practice during the Battle of Arras (April--May 1917), where it
succeeded. At the Battle of Passchendaele (June--November 1917),
his achievements on the field proved the feasibility of his
strategy of employing a thinly manned front line that minimized the
number of soldiers exposed to artillery fire. Lossberg's tactical
modernizations have become essential components of army doctrine,
and Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of A German Chief of
Staff will take readers inside the mind of one of the most
significant military innovators of the twentieth century.
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