The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

As successor to Colonel Repington, Captain B. H. Liddell Hart is ranked to-day as the foremost military critic in England, probably in Europe. Although still under forty, he is known on two continents as a master strategist and biographer. He invented the Battle Drill system (1917) and the Expanding Torrent of attack (officially adopted since the war); his Science of Infantry Tactics has been widely adopted; he has criticized bv request the post-war French Infantry regulations and the training centres of the Italian Army and Air Force. His biographies of Scipio Africanus, Sherman, and Foch have been widely respected.