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If you are interested in tanks, armor tactics, leadership and a perspective of the German Army during World War II than this a book for you. Also if you are an officer in the Army in the Calvary or Armor branch it is a must read. At times the book is dry with numbers and theory; the book has it points about the development of armor and tactics leading up to World War II. There is some criticism that...
A rare, enlightening account by an outstanding soldier reveals his thoughts and theories on armored warfare and motorized land battle--which he then put in action to devastating effect during World War Two. Guderian's treatise on the importance of tank development, and on modern mechanized technology, shows exactly why the Germans dominated land warfare in the early stage of the fighting.
Loading...| Editors' Introduction | 7 | |
| Preface | 19 | |
| Introduction | 23 | |
| 1914. How did Positional Warfare Come About? | 26 | |
| 1. | Lances against Machine-Guns | 27 |
| 2. | The March of the Infantry to the Sacrificial Altar | 33 |
| 3. | Trench Warfare and Barbed Wire | 36 |
| Waging War with Inadequate Weaponry | 39 | |
| 1. | The Artillery Combat | 39 |
| 2. | Gas Warfare | 45 |
| The Genesis of the Tank | 48 | |
| 1. | In Britain | 48 |
| 2. | In France | 53 |
| 3. | First Deployments, Mistakes and Misgivings | 55 |
| 4. | Mass Production | 72 |
| The Birth of a New Weapon | 74 | |
| 1. | Cambrai | 74 |
| 2. | 1918. The German Spring Offensive. Soissons and Amiens | 91 |
| 3. | The End of the War. The War in the Air. Tank Warfare. Chemical Warfare. U-Boat Warfare | 124 |
| The Versailles Diktat | 133 | |
| Post-War Developments Abroad | 136 | |
| 1. | Technical Developments | 136 |
| 2. | Tactical Developments | 140 |
| 3. | Anti-Tank Defence | 154 |
| The German Mechanized Forces | 160 | |
| 1. | The Era of the Dummy Tanks. Military Sovereignty | 160 |
| 2. | Armoured and Motorized Reconnaissance | 163 |
| 3. | Anti-Tank Detachments | 165 |
| 4. | Tank Forces | 167 |
| 5. | Motorized Infantry | 171 |
| Life in the Panzer Forces | 174 | |
| The Tactics of the Panzer Forces and their Co-operation with the Other Arms | 178 | |
| 1. | The Tactics of the Panzer Forces | 178 |
| 2. | The Tank Action at Villers-Bretonneux | 184 |
| 3. | The Tank Action at Niergnies-Seranvillers | 187 |
| 4. | The Co-operation of Tanks with the other Arms | 188 |
| Warfare at the Present Day | 200 | |
| 1. | The Defensive | 200 |
| 2. | The Offensive | 202 |
| 3. | Aircraft and Tanks | 207 |
| 4. | Questions of Supply and Transport | 207 |
| 5. | The Most Recent Experience of War | 209 |
| Conclusion | 212 | |
| Bibliography | 213 | |
| Editors' Acknowledgments | 215 | |
| Index | 217 |
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