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Shop nowThe Defence of Duffer's Drift
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Learn moreFirst published in 1907, The Defence of Duffer's Drift is a classic essay on small unit tactics based on author Ernest Dunlop Swinton's experiences in the Boer War in South Africa. In a series of dreams, Swinton's character Lieutenant Backsight Forethought works through a number of possible approaches to defending a piece of land known as the Drift. Each time, he makes fatal errors, but with each successive dream, Forethought corrects his previous mistakes and learns new lessons. The resulting work is an accessible, insightful look at small unit tactics and leadership that is as useful today as it was in the early 20th century. This edition also includes The Battle of Booby's Bluffs by Major Single List.
Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868-1951) was a military writer and British Army officer. Born in Bangalore, India, he became an officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1888. During the Second Boer War, he received the Distinguished Service Order; in the years leading up to World War I, he served as a staff officer and an official historian of the Russo-Japanese War. His works include The Green Curve, The Study of War, Eyewitness, and An Eastern Odyssey.
British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.