04.02.25b. The Defence of Duffer's Drift
I just read
Major General Sir Ernest Swinton's excellent little book,
The
Defence of Duffer's Drift. It is a series of dreams in which a young British
officer tries to defend a ford with his fifty men in the Boer War. Each dream starts in
the same situation, except that he is left with lessons such as "Don't let your
sentries light fires for warmth" from the previous dreams. It's a great way to teach,
and entertaining.
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