Armour Tactics in the Second World War: Panzer Army Campaigns of 1939-41 in German War Diaries

By Rudolf Steiger

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854966943
• ISBN13: 9780854966943
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"