
Satirical Look at Officer Incompetence and Lessons Learned in the Great War
Excerpt from “Battle of Booby’s Bluffs,” a satire on officer incompetence and lessons learned in the Great War. Written in the style of Defence of Duffer’s Drift, it was originally published in installments in the Infantry Journal, (May through October) 1921 and republished by Dale Street Books in 2017. […] At 4:25 Lieutenant Swift called the battalion to attention, […]