In his early life he wrote a novel, The Two Friends, and non-fiction works like Poland: an Historical Sketch and The Russians in Bulgaria and Rumelia. His earliest military victory was the Battle of Dybbol, where he defeated the Danes, and in his late life he retired to an estate in Kreisau after appointing Alfred von Waldersee as his successor. He introduced the breach- loading rifle into his country's army and was the first to write of the strategic importance of railroads, and his ideas were 
In his early life he wrote a novel, The Two Friends, and non-fiction works like Poland: an Historical Sketch and The Russians in Bulgaria and Rumelia. His earliest military victory was the Battle of Dybbol, where he defeated the Danes, and in his late life he retired to an estate in Kreisau after appointing Alfred von Waldersee as his successor. He introduced the breach- loading rifle into his country's army and was the first to write of the strategic importance of railroads, and his ideas were put into practice in the battles of Langensalza and Koniggratz against Austria in the Seven Weeks War. His similarly named nephew botched the Schlieffen Plan, but he had more success against the French. FTP, name this German field marshal who crushed Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan.
In his early life he wrote a novel, The Two Friends, and non-fiction works like Poland: an Historical Sketch and The Russians in Bulgaria and Rumelia.
Helmuth Karl Bernhard, Count von {Moltke}