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...PANZER LEADER [528 pp.)-Heinz Guderian-Dutton...
...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...
...visit his wife, who is critically ill in a Black Forest hospital, officials of the British military prison at Werl signed a seven-day parole for ex-Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, the Wehrmacht's 63-year-old Panzer specialist, who is serving a twelve-year war crime sentence. One condition of the leave: a pledge of honor not to talk to reporters...
...Twelve ground divisions of 12,500 men each-six motorized infantry, three heavy Panzer and three light Panzer divisions...
...contrasts the motives of Hero Werner ("Fighting against my people now is fighting for them") and a tough Wehrmacht sergeant (Hans Christian Blech) who works for the Americans "because you're winning the war." Werner's dangerous mission behind German lines to locate the position of a Panzer army develops into an odyssey through the German state of mind. Tormented inwardly by reminders of his old loyalties, he finds despair, spiritual decay, flickering compassion, Nazi brutishness and remnants of a severe Prussian sense of honor...