Alan Seager's Battle Leadership

Alan Seager was shot in the stomach and while he bled to death he reportedly continued to encourage his fellow soldiers to press on. Captain Adolf von Schell entered the Imperial German army a few years prior to the outbreak of world war of the world war so this was written in the 30s when there was no second world war. The mobilization in 1914 found him on the Belgian frontier in command of an infantry platoon, taking part in several battles which occurred during the historic race to the sea.