Most students of contemporary military history know about Infantry Attacks, a memoir in which Erwin Rommel describes his front-line service during the First World War. Few, however, know about the other book that the soon-to-be ‘Desert Fox’ wrote in the interwar period, a collection of tactical decision games that was first published, in 1934, under the prosaic title of Aufgaben für Zug und Kompanie (Problems for Platoon and Company.)
A translation of the first of these games can be found here, at the Military Learning Library.
A PDF of the complete German-language original hangs its Stahlhelm on the Google Drive of OnInfantry@gmail.com.
Oh. It's in Fraktur. When I was teaching myself German when I was in high school, the book I used, from our small town library, taught Fraktur, so I can read it. When I got to Germany for my exchange year, I was surprised that the German schools no longer used it.
Terrific! Great addition to the decision games canon.