Origins of the Blitzkrieg: Die Kaiserschlacht

By Shay Thomas

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject History of Europe - Ages of World Wars, grade: A, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Memorial University of Newfoundland), language: English, abstract: The Origins of the Blitzkrieg is a brief examination of the evolution of strategy and tactics that paved the way to one of the most successful styled campaigns in warfare. Popularly employed to devastating success in the Second World War, Blitzkrieg's history simply did not begin from the thinkers of the interwar period, its origins stem even further back. An extremely likely outcome during an era when both sides of the conflict struggled initially to make sense of new advanced weapons of war. This paper not only briefly examines the struggle of the Central Powers and Allies in trying to reconcile the many stalemates of the war, but also outlining coupled with analysis of the very foundations of what would later be pieced together in its totality as lightning war.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3668356742
• ISBN13: 9783668356740
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"