Quick Training for War

Osprey is proud to reissue this historically significant publication, which offers a unique insight into perceptions of how to wage war in 1914.

In this fascinating little book, Baden-Powell uses his extensive military experience and memories of service in Africa to distill soldiering down to 'the four C-s': Courage, Common sense, Cunning and Cheerfulness. With observations gleaned from his campaigns against the Zulus, the Ashanti and the Boers during the period 1876–1910 (and even from conv...