Polkovodcheskoe iskusstvo - Fraitag-Loringkhoven G.

Military writer, publicist, teacher and Prussian general from Infanteria Baron Hugo Friedrich Johann von Freitag-Loringhoven (1855 - 1924) in the early 20th world was considered one of the leading German war thinkers, and not only in historical problems, but also on pressing issues of military construction. His work "Military Art" became the result of all military-historical activities of the author and a kind of encyclopedia of military affairs of the 18th and early 20th centuries. comparative characteristics of military campaigns (Napoleon's Wars and the Patriotic War of 1812, Franco-Prussian War of 1870 - 1871, Russian-Japanese War 1904 - 1905, World War I (Great) War). The manuscript was translated into Russian for the first time and is provided with comments from a military history specialist. The text is supplemented with original maps that give a visual representation of the progress of the campaigns described.