He was the architect of the Blitzkrieg, the general whose tanks conquered Europe for the Führer. But Heinz Guderian's story is one of tragic irony: the very tactical genius that enabled Hitler's early ...

“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 ...

PANZER LEADER [528 pp.)—Heinz Guderian—Dutton ($7.50). Watching a weapons demonstration at Kummersdorf one day in 1933. Chancellor Adolf Hitler exclaimed with delight: “That’s what I need! That’s what ...

The Panzers are gone, but the playbook remains. From the deserts of Iraq to NATO's defense plans, the core principles of Heinz Guderian's Blitzkrieg—speed, surprise, and overwhelming force—continue to ...