In 1918, as all good Nazis know, the great German Army was betrayed and brought down by a collapsing home front. That could never happen this time; Führer Adolf Hitler had taken measures. Yet this ...
As Germany shifted from blitzkrieg to bitter defense, it wasn’t the mighty Panzer that held the line—it was the low-profile StuG. Mass-produced, cheap, and deadly, turretless assault guns like the ...
Heinz Guderian’s rise from a daring WWI officer to Hitler’s most trusted panzer commander transformed Germany’s military doctrine forever. Drawing from Allied theory, Guderian forged the lightning war ...
“The ablest of all German generals,” British Military Historian Liddell Hart called him. “Our finest operational brain,” said Panzer General Heinz Guderian, an exacting judge. Erich von Manstein ...