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Read Ebook: The War Book of the German General Staff Being The Usages of War on Land Issued by the Great General Staff of the German Army by Prussia Germany Armee Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II Morgan J H John Hartman Translator
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Ebook has 484 lines and 58086 words, and 10 pages
The Rules of the Game 85
Colored Troops are Blacklegs 87
Prisoners of War 88
The Modern View 89
Prisoners of War are to be Honorably treated 90
Who may be made Prisoners 91
The treatment of Prisoners of War 92
Their confinement 92
The Prisoner and his Taskmaster 93
Flight 94
Diet 95
Letters 95
Personal belongings 95
The Information Bureau 96
When Prisoners may be put to Death 97
"Reprisals" 97
One must not be too scrupulous 98
The end of Captivity 99
Parole 100
Exchange of Prisoners 102
Removal of Prisoners 102
Sieges and Bombardments: Fair Game 103
Of making the most of one's opportunity 104
Spare the Churches 105
A Bombardment is no Respector of Persons 105
A timely severity 106
"Undefended Places" 108
Stratagems 110
What are "dirty tricks"? 111
The apophthegm of Frederick the Great 111
Of False Uniforms 112
The Corruption of others may be useful 113
And Murder is one of the Fine Arts 114
That the ugly is often expedient, and that it is a mistake to be too "nice-minded" 114
The Sanctity of the Geneva Convention 115
The "Hyenas of the Battlefield" 116
Flags of Truce 117
The Etiquette of Flags of Truce 119
The Envoy 120
His approach 120
The Challenge--"Wer da?" 120
His reception 120
He dismounts 121
Let his Yea be Yea, and his Nay, Nay 121
The duty of his Interlocutor 121
The Impatient Envoy 122
The French again 122
The Scout 124
The Spy and his short shrift 124
What is a Spy? 125
Of the essentials of Espionage 126
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