Table of Contents; Foreword by Professor Dennis Showalter; Introduction; Index of Great Commanders; Part One: The Nineteenth Century; 1. Louis-Alexandre Berthier; 2. August Neithardt von Gneisenau; 3. Randolph B. Marcy; 4. John A. Rawlins; 5. Helmuth Carl Bernard Graf von Moltke; Part Two: World War I; 6. Erich Ludendorff; 7. Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann; 8. Hans von Seeckt; 9. Hermann von Kuhl; 10. Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf; 11. Fritz von Lossberg; 12. Maxime Weygand; 13. Launcelot Kiggell and Herbert Lawrence; 14. James Guthrie Harbord; Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history's great commanders and the art of command. None have focused exclusively on the chief of staff -- that key staff officer responsible for translating the ideas of the commander into practical plans that common soldiers can execute successfully on the battlefield. In some cases, it is almost impossible to think of certain great commanders without also thinking of their chief of staff. Napoleon's chief of staff Berthier and Eisenhower'
