| Armour Tactics in the Second World War: Panzer Army Campaigns of 1939-41 in German War Diaries Contributor(s): Steiger, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0854966943 ISBN-13: 9780854966943 Publisher: Berg Publishers OUR PRICE: $133.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii |
| Dewey: 940.541 |
| LCCN: 90039939 |
| Series: Studies in Military History |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.67" W x 8.73" (0.60 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The author, a historian and former Swiss Armoured Corp officer, uses primary documents to describe tank tactics during the first two years of World War II, a period in which armour was employed in the Polish, Western and Russian campaigns. The first year of 'Operation Barbarossa' is examined in great detail using the files of the second Panzer Army whose commander, Guderian, who has been called the father of the German armoured force. |