This book is about becoming commanders. You can clarify what level, what type and type of troops, but these will already be details. Most importantly, this book is about becoming commanders during war, on the line of combat contact. According to the table of contents, it is clear that for the author of the book and in what sequence it was important in the formation of his unique "command voice": the civilian population of the front line, the command staff of the unit entrusted to him and the regimental economy. The third is especially interesting - how they are dressed, what they eat, how they rest and what his subordinates are fighting with. The book describes the events of the German offensive on the North-Western Front in 1915. During these events, a battle took place in Smorgon (Belarus). Alexander Svechin and his regiment fought in the tactical defense link. The regiment commander, Colonel A. S., wrote about his regiment that the regiment entrusted to him had "outstanding qualities and traditions," if we add to this "assistance in increasing combat effectiveness and the active use of favorable cases" by the commander, then it will turn out to be small, but a victory at Dukshtakh, and then a breakthrough near Lutsk.