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PANZER LEADER [528 pp.)-Heinz Guderian-Dutton...
Watching a weapons demonstration at Kummersdorf one day in 1933. Chancellor Adolf Hitler exclaimed with delight: "That's what I need! That's what I want to have!" The man who was giving him what he wanted was a stocky Pomeranian lieutenant colonel named Heinz Guderian, showing off his new Panzers and motorized troops. He had developed them in the face of opposition from most of the Wehrmacht generals and he had brought them a long way from the days when schoolboys used to slit his canvas dummy tanks for a look inside. He and his tanks were...
...Snows of Russia. Guderian's autobiographical Panzer Leader is in many ways the most revealing book written by or about a German general since World War II. Like a lot of his colleagues, Guderian finds the ivory tower of professional soldiering a convenient retreat from the grimmer facts of Nazi life. Concentration camps, persecutions and the like were Himmler's business, a "secret" that was kept in a "masterly" way. Guderian's business was war, and he writes about the military side of war with a fullness and clarity that military historians will be grateful...
...approved by the Bonn government (many Germans also have misgivings), and by the other partners in the proposed European Army-France, Italy and Benelux. To win their approval, Blank is making sure that on the new German army rolls there will be none of the old familiar names-Guderian, Kesselring, von Rundstedt, Mannstein. "This army," said a retired German officer, "will not be commanded by anyone you have read about in the papers...
General Heinz Guderian, tank expert, at Berchtesgaden belittled U.S. tanks and Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton ("he followed the same principle that I used in Poland, France and Russia"). declared U.S. and German soldiers should shake hands and make up ("just like after a football match...