The German Army of Today. By Wilhelm Necker. (Lindsay Drum-
mond. 6s.)
THIS clearly-written and well-arranged account of the organisation and weapons of the German Army will be a valuable reference book. It will be useful not only to the soldier who may come in contact with the German Army, but also to the civilian who wishes to follow intelligently the newspaper accounts of the war. Whoever uses the book must, of course, make his own effort to keep it up to date—the soldier from his official intelligence summaries, the civilian less successfully from his general reading—for in war-time no army's organisation remains unchanged for long. Mr. Necker has done his best to make his picture as accurate as possible up to the date of publication, and readers can turn to his book for descriptions of such recent developments as the Mark V tank and the six-barrelled smoke mortar. There are, of course, some points, especially in the tables at the end, which raise questions ; for example, 55o rounds seems a lot of rifle ammunition for a man to carry, and the firing of six bombs from the light mortar in eight to nine seconds would be rather an 'academic exercise. But such criticisms in no way reflect on the book's merit. The photographs and diagrams deserve a special word of praise.
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