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 ...
Heinz Guderian’s rise from a daring WWI officer to Hitler’s most trusted panzer commander transformed Germany’s military doctrine forever. Drawing from Allied theory, Guderian forged the lightning war ...