Contents -- Maps, Figures, Photographs -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Soldiers' General -- 1 Looking at Command -- 2 A Young Man before the War -- 3 The Years of Company Command and Personal Turmoil -- 4 Battalion Command: Training for War -- 5 Battalion Command: The Battlefield Test -- 6 Brigade Command -- 7 Division Command and the Liri Valley -- 8 The Lessons from Liri -- 9 Gothic Line to the End in Italy -- 10 Northwest Europe and After -- 11 Hoffmeister and Command -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.