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Germany's Panzer Arm: (Contributions in Military Studies)

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Books have been published on Hitler's armored forces to the point of redundancy, but as DiNardo points out in his Introduction, many of the works have been either technical or pictorial and fail to integrate "organizational, economic, personnel. doctrinal, and technical factors that affected the panzer arm's performance".
The author pulls these elements together quite satisfactorily in this excellent little handbook, which discusses not only the expected aspects of policies, training, and organization, but also the all-important industrial production details, which bolster DiNardo's contention that the German forces were more nearly a nineteenth- than twentieth-century army; unsuited for modern warfare.
With charts, graphs, photos, good bibliography, and index, this work deserves a place on any World War II bookshelf, and may be considered essential for the panzer student.

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