Stackpole Military History
2 total works
No twentieth-century military organization has been as widely studied as the German war machine in World War II, and few of its components were as important, influential, or revolutionary as its armored force. Nevertheless, there are almost no truly integrated studies of the organizational, economic, personnel, doctrinal, and tactical factors that affected the panzer arm's performance. Drawing on military documents, memoirs, battle reports, and other original sources, DiNardo fills that gap with this detailed look at the rise and fall of German armor.
Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism?
by R L DiNardo and Williamson Murray
Published 4 August 2008
Thanks to its devastating blitzkrieg offensives, Germany earned an enduring reputation as one of World War II's most frightening forces, combining mechanical efficiency and lightning speed. But while its panzers were indeed formidable, Germany fielded one of the least modern armies of the war. As R. L. DiNardo shows in this myth-busting history of the German war machine, 75 percent of its army relied on horses for transport, from Poland and France in 1939-40 until the end of the war.