Book description
Heinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank
warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across
Poland in 1939.
Personally leading the devastating attack which traversed the
Ardennes Forest and broke through French lines, he was at the
forefront of the race to the Channel coast. Only Hitler's personal
command to halt prevented Guderian's tanks and troops turning Dunkirk
into an Allied bloodbath.
Later commanding Panzergruppe 2 in Operation Barbarossa, Guderian's
armoured spearhead took Smolensk after fierce fighting and was poised
to launch the final assault on Moscow when he was ordered south to
Kiev. In the battle that followed, he helped encircle and capture over
600,000 Soviet troops after days of combat in the most terrible conditions.
Panzer Leader is a searing firsthand account of the most
effective fighting force in modern history by the man who commanded it.
General Heinz Guderian commanded the German panzer forces in
Operation Barbarossa, but was dismissed for taking a timely step
backward instead of pandering to Hitler's illusions. Guderian was
adjudged free of any connection to war crimes, and did not stand trial
at Nuremberg.
