When Hitler witnessed Heinz Guderian’s fast-attack tactics in action, he found the architect of his military revolution. Backed by unprecedented promotions and power, Guderian transformed German ...

In 1918, as all good Nazis know, the great German Army was betrayed and brought down by a collapsing home front. That could never happen this time; Führer Adolf Hitler had taken measures. Yet this ...

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 ...

He was the architect of the Blitzkrieg, the general whose tanks conquered Europe for the Führer. But Heinz Guderian's story is one of tragic irony: the very tactical genius that enabled Hitler's early ...