Panzer Leader

by Heinz Guderian, B.H. Liddell Hart (Introduction)

Overview

Panzer Leader is a candid and dramatic account of the development and campaigns of the panzer forces that, along with the Luftwaffe, stood at the heart of blitzkrieg; it is also a searing group portrait of the Third Reich's leading personalities as they turned early victory into a protracted, agonizing defeat.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684228140
Publisher:	Martino Fine Books
Publication date:	05/01/2023
Pages:	548
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.22(d)

About the Author

Heinz Guderian (1888-1954) rose through the Nazi ranks to become Cheif of the General Staff under Adolf Hitler. He was also the author of Achtung, Panzer! and With the Tanks in the East and West.

Editorial Reviews

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Booknews

"This brilliant memoir is a mesmerizing read.... A great book by a great soldier."—Stephen E. Ambrose


"Panzer Leader belongs on the shelf of every serious student of this violent twentieth century."—John S. D. Eisenhower


"Guderian's memoirs belong to the classics of military literature, comparable to Grant's or Sherman's."—Newsweek


"His contempt for the Nazis is never far from the surface.... What the general does not say about the great moral and human issues of his era is as revealing as anything ever written about the mentality of the German officer corps."—New Yorker


"There is no soberer and better story of how and why the Wehrmacht failed in Russia.... The military detail is touched by sharp descriptions of the fighting and vivid glimpses of the vague, distorted, half-life of men at war."—New York Times Book Review

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