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Achtung - Panzer! (Cassell Military Classics) Paperback – January 1, 1999

by Heinz Guderian (Author)

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A rare, enlightening account by an outstanding soldier reveals his thoughts and theories on armored warfare and motorized land battle--which he then put in action to devastating effect during World War Two. Guderian's treatise on the importance of tank development, and on modern mechanized technology, shows exactly why the Germans dominated land warfare in the early stage of the fighting.

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Born in 1888, Heinz Guderian served in World War One, came to HitlerÂ¿s attention in 1935, was made corps commander of Panzer troops and promoted to General in 1938. His tanks were greatly successful in the invasions of Poland and France and, perceived as pro-Nazi, Guderian was much in favour. However, when the Russian invasion failed in the winter of 1941, Guderian was forced to resign, not to regain his position until 1944, when the war was all but lost. He died in Bavaria in 1954.

Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Cassell; New Ed edition (January 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0304352853
ISBN-13: 978-0304352852
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 62 customer reviews
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A True Classic

ByRobert Fisheron May 6, 2014

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Anyone who has studied the history of mobile warfare has been exposed indirectly to Guderian's precepts, but nowhere are they more coherently and simply explained than by the master himself. Most of this book is a history of World War I on the western front, but written in a way to draw conclusions, as sort of a giant debriefing examining where both sides screwed up. He lays out the evidence with hard numbers that destroys the arguments of his contemporaries, who advocated dispersing tanks and tying them to the pace of the infantry. He examines where the French and British hit on the right formula, and where they made mistakes and failed to exploit their tremendous success with massed tank attacks. Written in 1937, he spells out what Germany must do to exploit modern technology to avoid the stalemate of the Great War, and create a rapid victory. He describes the creation of Germany's Panzer divisions in detail that her enemies would have done well to study. It is rare for a man who was a vigorous, lead-from-the-front combat leader to have also the writing skill to put his well-reasoned studies into interesting form; hence the rare value of this volume. This belongs in your collection.

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Germany may have had its Guderian and Great Britain its Liddel Hart and Fuller

ByChristian Potholmon July 1, 2015

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Heinz Guderian, Achtung-Panzer: The Development of Tank Warfare (London: Cassell, 1992). Originally written in 1937, Guderian’s analysis of tank warfare would turn out to be seminal. Pointing out the changed nature of warfare with the introduction of poison gas, the airplane and the submarine during World War I, he accented the importance of tank warfare with the very crucial addition of motorized infantry, and declared that if panzer forces were “full of verve” and “fanatically committed to progress” they would “restore the offensive power of the army.” He was correct and the resulting German blitzkrieg would turn out to be the revolution he had envisioned. Note: Germany may have had its Guderian and Great Britain its Liddel Hart and Fuller, but America had George S. Patton who, writing in the Cavalry Journal (May, 1920), wrote a splendid little provocative piece entitled “Tanks in Future Wars” (pp. 342-346) about the need to focus on tanks as an armored force and not scatter them in among infantry and artillery. He concluded, “The tank corps grafted onto infantry, cavalry, artillery, or engineers will be like the third leg of a duck; worthless for control, and for combat impotent.” Patton was immediately told to cease and desist by the powers that were if he wished to continue in the U. S. Army. For his part, Captain D. D. “Ike” Eisenhower, wrote a contemporary piece for the Infantry Journal entitled, “A Tank Discussion,” (November 1920), pp. 453-458. In it Eisenhower tries to make the case for keeping tanks as part of the equipment of the infantry units. Taken together, these two articles show what thin gruel were the American musings after World War I about an armor revolution in warfare. For Patton’s war recollections, see his posthumously published War As I Knew.

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If you are a fan of military history and want a better understanding of the changes in warfare wrought in WW ...

ByCal70on May 5, 2016

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The technical memoirs of a superb military mind. He called the result Blitzkrieg; we call it, today, combined arms operations. This is a work by a German professional soldier, a product of the German General Staff, and a superb field commander. Had Hitler not intervened and ordered a stand down for three days, it is likely that Guderian and von Rundstedt would have captured the entire British army at Dunkirk. This result by the application of Guderian's theories on combined operations and the role of armor (tanks) in modern warfare.

If you are a fan of military history and want a better understanding of the changes in warfare wrought in WW II, this is a book for you.

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Five Stars

Bybritain22on April 30, 2017

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some of it applies to today's warfare and as an Army Officer it was a good read. the only reason it only gets 4 stars is too much of it focused on German unit organization and not applicable to todays US armor units.

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Excellent old read

ByMichael G. Winteron June 17, 2013

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I enjoy reading military and conflict history. To get a sense of scope of a world-war or even the small and large scale aspects of the trenches is difficult, to comprehend the experiences either political, strategic, tactical or personal requires a lot of reading. Recommended authors might include Keegan, Wilmott, Sir Alasdair Horne, Ernst Junger, Robert Graves or Guy Sajer (ww2). There is however something different about the style that Guderian uses. Junger and Graves and others like Guy Sajer speak of personal impact and effect and horror of physical in contact battle. Sir Alistair Horne refers to some of this in his excellent book on Verdun whilst also trying to reference all layers of the conflict and flawed thinking of leadership and the costs.

There is something of value in the way that Guderian writes with detachment and clinical surgical observation that makes one appreciate tactics at the divisional level. He speaks in 20/20 hindsite of designs in the success and failure of various tactics in numerous battles during WW1. The 'such and such division' were wiped out. The excellence of the British operation at Cambria, the failure of the German response to the new weapon. All written in a clear fashion to help influence the high-command in creation of tank forces in the late 30's. Excellent, and different to the gore and personal cost expressed by Graves in Goodbye to all that or Alasdair Horne's Verdun.

Mandatory WWI and WWII reading!

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Great book, read and understand

ByMoneyon October 6, 2014

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Great book. There are footnotes the british translator put in that address areas that he felt are not exactly how the historic records he gathered as alternate sources read relative to Heinz's book. Now I dont know how he knew which ones to target and I cant imagine where to gather the sources and all the time required, but certainly they appear to be the statements when Gen.Guderian cites a strategic move or event the enemy made based on HIS opinion after the battles, of who did it and why, or who used ammonia gas first for example. So it is Heinz's base writing, but the translator added some commentary at the end of each section when he felt it was needed to maybe try and correct/clarify what he thought Heinz was wrong on. Reading someones own memoirs-- interpret using your own life skills.

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Achtung, Panzer - Required Reading!

A military classic. Part of the Marine Corps required reading list. I'm certain it's on Secretary Mattis's reading list.Read more

Published 5 months ago by G.J. Debus

Good book.....

Good book.... one of the few (another being "Infantry Attacks") that spends it's time on tactics rather than extolling the virtues of National Socialism...

Published 6 months ago by Tomsamba

Complicated

Great book, just a little too hard for me to read and understand the maps

Published 7 months ago by Amazon Customer

Still useful though.

This is really more of a history book than a book on Guderian's theory. Still useful though.

Published 7 months ago by Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Very happy with product. Just as described and delivered on time.

Published 9 months ago by Mark T Kolodziej

I liked the book

I liked the book. It talks about the changes that were made in tactics from ww1 to the start of ww2 and how they came about.

Published 11 months ago by Amazon Customer

Genial

Muy bueno y es una historia necesaria pars no repetirla, de lectura obligatoria, muy recimendafo para todo el publico interesado en la historia

Published 11 months ago by Jimmy Bedoya

A must read for armour fans

Interesting read. If you are interested in Armoured History or even just the thoughts of some of the thinkers between the World Wars this is the book

Published 1 year ago by R. S. Rehmel

Five Stars

Fantastic book that gives a very good look at the thoughts of Germany's leading developer of tank doctrines.

Published 1 year ago by Magnus Hansvold

Five Stars

Classic novel by the grandfather of armored warfare. And a required read for today's armored forces.

Published 1 year ago by Rich Westfall

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