Men against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command

by S.L.A. Marshall

Paperback

Published December 31, 2000

About the author

S.L.A. Marshall (full name, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall) served in World War I and then embarked in a career in journalism. In World War II, he was chief combat historian in the Central Pacific (1943) and chief historian for the European Theater of Operations (1945). He authored some 30 books about warfare, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, The River and the Gauntlet and Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War.

Reviews

[Joe · Rating 2 out of 5]

For being a book based on fraudulent rate of fire statistics, it was still an interesting analysis of warfare psychology when paired with David Jones’s In Parenthesis and Robin Olds’s Fighter Pilot. Reading this book was an attempt to better understand if there was value in a text that is often poorly quoted and cherry-picked to support arguments on changes in infantry psychology.