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| erwin rommel tank tactics: Attacks Erwin Rommel, 1979 Written directly after combat, Rommel critiques his own battle strategies and tactics during World War I in an attempt to learn further from his losses and victories. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Infantry Attacks Erwin Rommel, 2015-12-11 Infantry Attacks is a classic text in the field of military strategy. Written by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, it was first published in 1937 as a journal-esque chronicle of the author's experiences in World War I and the lessons he learned there. In it, he provides detailed accounts of a variety of military strategies that rely on speed, deception, and deep penetration into enemy territory to intimidate and surprise opposing forces. Considered by his troops and enemies alike to be a humane, professional and immensely skilled officer, Rommel's use of intimidation and the advantage of surprise often forced enemies to surrender quickly, thereby avoiding unnecessary risk of injury and death for his troops (and their enemies), exertion, and expenditure of ammunition. Infantry Attacks was widely read by soldiers and military leaders upon its release and has become something of a staple in military education, providing a detailed glimpse into the tactics of an extremely effective and widely respected officer. It has been studied extensively throughout the West, particularly in the United States. The revered General George S. Patton is said to have been heavily influenced by this text. Rommel was appointed to the rank of high commander by Adolf Hitler in part because of the success of this book. Such positions were ordinarily reserved for members of old military families and the Prussian aristocracy, so this assignment spoke to Rommel's competence and the influence of his writing. Rommel went on to lead Hitler's Afrika Korps in North Africa. Although he planned to release a sequel based on his experiences there, he was unable to complete the manuscript before his death in 1944. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: How Wars Are Won Bevin Alexander, 2007-12-18 Even as we head into twenty-first-century warfare, thirteen time-tested rules for waging war remain relevant. Both timely and timeless, How Wars Are Won illuminates the thirteen essential rules for success on the battlefield that have evolved from ancient times until the present day. Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander’s incisive and vivid analyses of famous battles throughout the ages show how the greatest commanders—from Alexander the Great to Douglas MacArthur—have applied these rules. For example: • Feign retreat: Pretend defeat, fake a retreat, then ambush the enemy while being pursued. Used to devastating effect by the North Vietnamese against U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. • Strike at enemy weakness: Avoid the enemy’s strength entirely by refusing to fight pitched battles, a method that has run alongside conventional war from the earliest days of human conflict. Brilliantly applied by Mao Zedong to defeat the Chinese Nationalists. • Defend, then attack: Gain possession of a superior weapon or tactical system, induce the enemy to launch a fruitless attack, then go on the offensive. Employed repeatedly against the Goths by the Eastern Roman general Belisarius to reclaim vast stretches of the Roman Empire. The lessons of history revealed in these pages can be used to shape the strategies needed to win the conflicts of today. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Knight's Cross David Fraser, 1994-12-02 An in-depth biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel written with the cooperation of Rommel's son, by a renowned military analyst and historian who is himself a general. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Seek, Strike, and Destroy Christopher Richard Gabel, 1986 In the seventy years that have passed since the tank first appeared, antitank combat has presented one of the greatest challenges in land warfare. Dramatic improvements in tank technology and doctrine over the years have precipitated equally innovative developments in the antitank field. One cycle in this ongoing arms race occurred during the early years of World War II when the U.S. Army sought desperately to find an antidote to the vaunted German blitzkrieg. This Leavenworth Paper analyzes the origins of the tank destroyer concept, evaluates the doctrine and equipment with which tank destroyer units fought, and assesses the effectiveness of the tank destroyer in battle. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Toward Combined Arms Warfare Jonathan Mallory House, 1985 |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Killing Rommel Steven Pressfield, 2008-05-06 A thrilling WWII tale based on the real-life exploits of the Long Range Desert Group, an elite British special forces unit that took on the German Afrika Korps and its legendary commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox. Autumn 1942. Hitler’s legions have swept across Europe; France has fallen; Churchill and the English are isolated on their island. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oilfields of the Middle East. With the outcome of the war hanging in the balance, the British hatch a desperate plan—send a small, highly mobile, and heavily armed force behind German lines to strike the blow that will stop the Afrika Korps in its tracks. Narrated from the point of view of a young lieutenant, Killing Rommel brings to life the flair, agility, and daring of this extraordinary secret unit, the Long Range Desert Group. Stealthy and lethal as the scorpion that serves as their insignia, they live by their motto: Non Vi Sed Arte—Not by Strength, by Guile as they gather intelligence, set up ambushes, and execute raids. Killing Rommel chronicles the tactics, weaponry, and specialized skills needed for combat, under extreme desert conditions. And it captures the camaraderie of this “band of brothers” as they perform the acts of courage and cunning crucial to the Allies’ victory in North Africa. Combining scrupulous historical detail and accuracy with remarkable narrative momentum, Pressfield powerfully renders the drama and intensity of warfare, the bonds of men in close combat, and the surprising human emotions and frailties that come into play on the battlefield to create a vivid and authoritative depiction of the desert war. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Infantry Tactics Erwin Rommel, 1944 In This Classic Book On The Art Of War, One Of The Most Brilliant Respected Military Leaders Of The 20Th Century Discusses And Analyzes Some Of The Tactics That Lay Behind His Successes In The First World War. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Rommel: Lessons from Yesterday for Today's Leaders Charles Messenger, 2009-06-09 The first book in the World Generals series chronicles the impressive rise and tragic fall of Hitler's most brilliant military tactician. Modeled on the acclaimed Great Generals series, which features the strategy and legacy of famous American generals, World Generals broadens the scope to include the world's finest military leaders. Each volume will include a foreword by Wesley K. Clark, and be co-edited by a different foreign general who will write an afterword. This exciting new series opens with The Desert Fox, the most famous German field marshall in World War II, Erwin Rommel. A hero of the people of the Third Reich and widely respected by his opponents, Rommel proved himself highly adept at Blitzkrieg warfare. Both in France and North Africa he consistently outwitted his adversaries through his ability to sense the weak spot in his enemy's deployment and the pace at which he conducted his operations. Rommel's serious wounding in France came just three days before the aborted attempt on Hitler's life. Rommel subsequently came under suspicion of being involved in the plot and, under pressure, he committed suicide. Rommel displayed an outstanding ability to seize the initiative and retain it, and here, Charles Messenger draws on the skills behind this ability for the benefit of modern day leaders. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Field Marshal Daniel Allen Butler, 2015-07-19 A biography of the WWII military genius known as the Desert Fox—and his complex, ultimately fatal relationship with Hitler from a New York Times–bestselling author. Born leader, brilliant soldier, devoted husband and father—Erwin Rommel was intelligent, brave, and compassionate, while at the same time vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored warfare, running rings around a succession of Allied generals who never got his measure and could only resort to overwhelming numbers to defeat him. Yet for all his genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Führer whose successes blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich. Above all, he was the quintessential German patriot, who ultimately would refuse to abandon his moral compass—so that on one pivotal day in June 1944, he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil man and evil cause. He would still fight for Germany, even as he abandoned his oath of allegiance to the Führer, when he came to realize that Hitler had morphed into nothing more than an agent of death and destruction. In the end, Erwin Rommel was forced to die by his own hand, not because, as some would claim, he had dabbled in a tyrannicidal conspiracy, but because he had committed a far greater crime—he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth. In Field Marshal, New York Times–bestselling historian Daniel Allen Butler describes the swirling, innovative campaigns in which Rommel won his military reputation, and assesses the temper of the man who finally fought only for his country and no dark depths beyond. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Achtung-Panzer! Heinz Guderian, 1995 This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of careful study since his days on the German General Staff in the First World War, Guderian's book argued, quite clearly, how vital the proper use of tanks and supporting armoured vehicles would be in the conduct of a future war. When that war came, just two years later, he proved it, leading his Panzers with distinction in the Polish, French and Russian campaigns. Panzer warfare had come of age, exactly as he had forecast. This first English translation of Heinz Guderian's classic book - used as a textbook by Panzer officers in the war - has an introduction and extensive background notes by the modern English historian Paul Harris. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: The River and the Gauntlet Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, 1962 |
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| erwin rommel tank tactics: The Rommel Papers Erwin Rommel, 1953 En udgave af Feltmarskal Erwin Rommel's egne papirer, breve og dagbogsnotater fra kampagnerne og felttogene under 2. Verdenkrig. Han skriver levende og udførligt - og objektivt - om operationerne og hans måde at føre kommando på. Papirerne, hvoraf en stor del blev ødelagt - af forskellige grunde - efter Rommels's død - er indsamlet og redigeret i samarbejde med Rommel's søn, Manfred Rommel, og General Bayerlein. Fra indholdet: Frankrig, 1940: Meuse, Somme og Cherbourg. Krigen i Afrika, det første år: Graziani's nederlag, Cyrenaica, Tobruk, grænsekampe, engelske sommeroffensiv, 1941, Sollum, og vinterkampagnen, 1941-42: det britiske angreb, tank battle Totensonntag, raid's ind i Ægypten, tilnage til Tobruk, tilbagetog fra Cyrenaica, modangreb. Krigen i Afrika, det andet år: Gazala og Tobruk, Ørkenkrigsførelse, Sejr i ørkenen, anden kamp om Tobruk, og erobringen af Tobruk. Alamein. Forsvarsplaner, den statiske front, Alam Halfa, Alamein: kampen uden håb. Evakueringen af Cyrenaica. Tilbage til Tunesien, Tripolitania. Fra Alamein til Mareth - i tilbageblik. Army Group Africa og slutningen i Afrika. Italien, 1943. Invasionen, Normandiet, 1944. De sidste dage, efteråret 1944. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Rommel's Desert War Martin Kitchen, 2009-09-03 At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army from defeat. Martin Kitchen's masterful history of the Axis campaign provides a fundamental reassessment of the key battles of 1941-3, Rommel's generalship, and the campaign's place within the broader strategic context of the war. He shows that the British were initially helpless against the operational brilliance of Rommel's Panzer divisions. However Rommel's initial successes and refusal to follow orders committed the Axis to a campaign well beyond their means. Without the reinforcements or supplies he needed to deliver a knockout blow, Rommel was forced onto the defensive and Hitler's Mediterranean strategy began to unravel. The result was the loss of an entire army which together with defeat at Stalingrad signalled a decisive shift in the course of the war. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Rommel and His Art of War Erwin Rommel, 2003 Rommel himself, one of the most successful and well-known commanders of World War II, writes about his views on the philosophy of warfare, battles, leaders, and the progress of both World Wars. A complete picture of how a military genius grappled with the actuality of war is presented through Rommel's accounts of his experiences. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Tanks Of War Leo Musk, AI, 2025-02-17 Tanks Of War explores the evolution and impact of tanks on military strategy from World War I to modern conflicts. The book examines how these armored vehicles transformed from rudimentary machines into sophisticated, networked weapon systems, fundamentally altering battlefield tactics. It highlights the continuous cycle of innovation where the introduction of tanks spurred the development of new anti-tank technologies and combined arms operations. This comprehensive study showcases how tank design and deployment have reflected broader trends in military technology and tactical doctrine. The narrative progresses chronologically, starting with the origins of tanks in response to the trench warfare of World War I. Major sections delve into World War II, analyzing tank battles on the Eastern Front and in North Africa, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of various tank designs. Later chapters cover the Cold War era, the development of main battle tanks, and their role in modern engagements, culminating in a discussion of the future of tanks and armored warfare. The book uses technical specifications, firsthand accounts, and battle reports to support its analysis, offering a balanced perspective on the tank's influence. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Rommel John Pimlott, 2014-05-15 Featuring letters to his wife, orders, daily accounts of battle written during World War II and his published memoirs, Rommel offers an insight into a great military leader. Alongside accounts of fighting in World War I and World War II, Rommel shares his views on the philosophy of warfare, battles, leaders and the progress of both world wars. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Saving General Patton Robert Corns, 2020-01-17 SAVING GENERAL PATTON is a story inspired by events of World War ll, Pearl Harbor. The era of nuclear weapons that led the world to Cold war. The story starts with the mobilization and training of General Patton’s tank forces in the Mojave Desert. Patton’s mission, in part, was to defeat the German General Rommel, aka The Desert Fox, in North Africa. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Tanks Spencer Tucker, 2004-10-25 This is an introduction to the evolution of the tank across the 20th century covering both its capabilities as a weapons system and its strategic use on the battlefield. It includes a reference section on 100 20th-century tank models developed since World War I. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Operational Principles: The Operational Art Of Erwin Rommel And Bernard Montgomery Major T.L. McMahon, 2014-08-15 This study focuses on the operational level of war-that level which links tactics to strategy. The study seeks to identify and define principles applicable to the operational level of war. If valid, those principles ought to guide and/or govern the conduct of war at the operational level. Also, understanding of operational principles and the theoretical foundations of the operational level of war can assist US Army commanders and staff officers in preparation for and conduct of war at that level. Selected campaigns and battles conducted by Erwin Rommel and Bernard Montgomery during World War II are analyzed. The objective of the analyses is to determine what each commander considered as guides in making battlefield decisions. The research is not limited, however, to specific campaigns and battles. A description of each commander is offered; that is, his experiences and the evolution of his military thought. The prevailing German and British military doctrines are also reviewed. Interestingly, the criteria each commander used in making battlefield decisions-his operational principles-are apparent by understanding the man and the doctrine; the campaign and battle analyses serve to substantiate those principles. While Rommel and Montgomery represented different styles of war-fighting, maneuver and attrition respectively, they demonstrated a remarkable commonality in battlefield decision-making...Apparently the operational level of war can accommodate a broad range of war-fighting styles and instruments. The implications for the US Army derived from this study cover a wide range of subjects. Some involve organization, training, and preparation of operational-level commanders and staff officers. Most important is the development of an army which can successfully fight the campaigns and battles in future war. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Rommel's Afrika Korps Pier Paolo Battistelli, 2013-01-20 In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster. By early February 1941 the whole of Cyrenaica had been lost, and German help became necessary to avoid the loss of all of Libya. On 14 February 1941 the first echelons of German troops hurriedly arrived at the port of Tripoli, starting the 27-month German engagement in Northern Africa. This book covers the complex and oft-changing organisation and structure of German forces in North Africa from their first deployment through to the conclusion of the battle of El Alamein, an engagement that irrevocably changed the strategic situation in the Western Desert. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Rommel's Panzers Christer Jörgensen, 2003 This text examines why Rommel and his panzers were so successful and analyses the composition, tactics, doctrine, personnel and hardware of the panzer divisions, why they were so effective in the hands of master tacticians. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Hitler's Panzers Dennis E. Showalter, 2009 A World War II scholar provides a comprehensive and unbiased overview of Nazi Germany's armored Panzer forces, including the history of the theory, strategy and myths of their technologically innovative warfare techniques. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Tank Michael E. Haskew, 2015-09-10 Explore the 100-year evolution of the tank and its role on the battlefield, from World War I to today's armored fighting vehicles. From the Greek phalanx to Roman siege engines, plans by Leonardo da Vinci, and the wondrous imagination of H. G. Wells, the idea of the armored fighting vehicle--the tank--has crossed centuries and given rise to the technologically advanced land warfare systems that populate the armies of countries large and small today. First appearing during World War I as unwieldy boxes mounted on tractor chassis and prone to mechanical failure, tank designs evolved into sleek weapons with the now-classic characteristics of speed, mobility, and firepower. During the 1920s, American Maj. Gen. Adna Chaffee Jr., correctly predicted that mechanized armies would win the land battles of the future. Young US Army officers such as Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Patton risked their careers to champion the development of armored divisions. Modern tanks perform in both offensive and defensive roles, capable of exploiting breaches in enemy defenses and rapidly slashing into rear areas, disrupting communications, supply, and command and control. In Tank: 100 Years of the World's Most Important Armored Military Vehicle, noted military historian Michael E. Haskew is your guide to the complete 100-year history of these unparalleled machines. He starts with the development of early tanks, moves on to the uses of tanks in World War I, World War II, and the Cold War, and covers the modern armored fighting vehicles in use during the Gulf Wars and in conflicts right up to today. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Rommel's Desert War Samuel W. Mitcham, 2007-08-16 The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commanders. Told largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and letters. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Rommel and the Rebel Lawrence Wells, 2008-06 According to legend, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel toured American Civil War battlefields before World War II, visiting the battlefield park at Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi to study the tactics of Confederate cavalry general Nathan B. Forrest which he later incorporates into his battle strategy. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Gates of Fire Steven Pressfield, 2000 Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxe |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Tank Patrick Wright, 2000 When British tanks first crawled onto the battlefields in September 1916, they inspired laughter as well as dread. But these 'big jokes' went on to transform the nature of ground warfare forever. For this captivating narrative of the tank's history, Patrick Wright went to arms factories and military bases around the world. He was the first western writer to be received by the First Warsaw Tank Brigade after the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, and he discussed Operation Desert Storm with the US Army's Armour Centre in Fort Knox. The tank, Wright discovers, is as much a terrifying cultural phantom as a practical war machine. He gives us the tank's fascinating story through the eyes of the people who have tried to face up to it - from the renegade artists in Prague who painted a Soviet memorial tank pink, to the solitary protester in Tiananmen Square whose bravery touched the world. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: The Story of Tanks Thomas Fleming, 2017-08-22 It is a curious historical anomaly that the United States, for generations the greatest steel producer on the planet, the nation that invented the airplane and a staggering array of other technological marvels, never managed to design and build a good tank before the MIA1 Abrams of the 1991 Gulf War. The history of tanks has seldom attracted the attention it deserves, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming argues in this essay. Here is the overlooked and fascinating story of America's tanks. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: To Lose a Battle Alistair Horne, 2007-06-28 In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne’s narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German rivalry. To Lose a Battle is the third part of the trilogy beginning with The Fall of Paris and continuing with The Price of Glory (already available in Penguin). |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Triumphant Fox Samuel W. Mitcham, 2009-03-04 Describes the Desert Fox's preparation for military greatness, his rise to prominence, and his early campaigns in Africa. Recounts the first battles of Germany's notorious Afrika Korps. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Panther vs Sherman Steven J. Zaloga, 2011-03-15 Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison between the two most important tanks involved in the crucial fighting of 1944, the American Sherman and the German Panther. Placing the reader in the heart of this battle between quality and quantity Zaloga uses a compelling account of the ferocious fighting during the Battle of the Bulge to explain the successes and failures of each tank, highlighting the fact that a tank can only be as good as its crew, weighing up the impact of low morale, high cost and mediocre crew training on the Panther's superiority. With full-colour battlescenes, technical drawings, photographs, digital gunsight views, extracts from crew training manuals and real combat reports, this book brings the titanic battles between the Panther and Sherman to life. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Panzer 38(t) Steven J. Zaloga, 2014-10-20 This title offers a detailed study of a successful but little-known German tank of World War II, the Panzer 38(t). Germany's annexation of Czech provinces in 1938 gave it control of the large Czech armament industry, one of the jewels of which was the very modern LT 38 tank. The type was fully integrated into the Wehrmacht as the Panzer 38(t), becoming one of the few foreign designs to continue in production for the Wehrmacht. It was an important element in the 1940 battle of France, and its most famous use was in the hands of Rommel's 7.Panzer Division. The Panzer 38(t) became one of the key weapons in the German invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941, and was widely used in the Eastern Front campaigns of 1941–42. This illustrated study gives a uniquely detailed account of the technical history and combat record of one of the most successful early World War II tanks. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: World War II Trucks and Tanks John Norris, 2012-09-01 Many thousands of different types of vehicles were used by the armies during the Second World War for various roles, including the fighting vehicles such as armoured cars and tanks. Today these are very popular with enthusiasts who restore these historic vehicles to their pristine state and attend specialist gatherings around the UK, Europe and the USA. This book explores original and reconstructed military vehicles from British, US, Russian, Italian and German forces using stunning colour photographs. It also provides a detailed history of each vehicle's development and use in the war, plus a wealth of technical information and rare internal shots. The range of vehicles includes trucks, ambulances, half-tracks, motorcycles, bulldozers, armoured cars and of course the impressive range of tanks, from tankettes to the fearsome German Tiger. Some vehicles are so rare that examples have been recreated using designs of the era and together with the original vehicles their fascinating wartime experiences are revealed. From the Moto Guzzi tricycle to the Schwimmwagen, the T-34 to the Austin ambulance, this is the perfect book for recreating, restoring and exploring the history of these classic military vehicles. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Kursk 1943 Anders Frankson, Niklas Zetterling, 2016-12-05 The battle at Kursk in 1943 is often referred to as the greatest tank battle in the history of warfare. This volume makes extensive use of German archival documents as well as various Russian books and articles. As well as an account of the battle, it addresses methodological issues. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Tank Terror Philip Arena, 2012-04-01 A collection of World War II Model German Tanks in Color. World War II history in Europe and North Africa is recreated with skillfully built and painted model German tanks. The tanks are carefully retouched digitally into atmospheric scenes that span the entire length of the war, from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Over 30 highly detailed World War II German tank models from the author's model collection are used. Each spread has information about the tank and the historic scene depicted, including German tank units and dates. With over 100 color photos of the German tanks that changed the military history of armor forever. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Panzer Chronicles Nikolai Hansen, AI, 2025-01-30 Panzer Chronicles delivers a comprehensive exploration of how German tank development revolutionized modern warfare, focusing on the technical innovation and strategic impact of these armored vehicles from post-World War I through World War II. The book uniquely weaves together mechanical engineering aspects with military doctrine, examining how the secret development of tanks during the Weimar Republic evolved into the formidable Panzer divisions that would define armored warfare. Through three distinct sections, the narrative progresses from the technical challenges faced by German engineers in designing vehicles like the legendary Tiger tank to the development of Blitzkrieg tactics under Heinz Guderian's influence. Drawing from recently declassified documents and firsthand accounts from tank commanders, the book presents complex engineering concepts alongside tactical analyses, making technical specifications accessible to both military history enthusiasts and engineering students. What sets this work apart is its interdisciplinary approach, combining detailed mechanical analysis with strategic insights while incorporating statistical data on production numbers and combat effectiveness. The book addresses key debates in military history, such as the comparative effectiveness of German versus Allied tank designs, while maintaining academic rigor without sacrificing readability. By connecting technological advancement with military strategy and industrial capabilities, it offers valuable insights for modern military professionals, historians, and engineers alike. |
| erwin rommel tank tactics: Stopping the Panzers Marc Milner, 2017-05-26 In the narrative of D-Day the Canadians figure chiefly—if at all—as an ineffective force bungling their part in the early phase of Operation Overlord. The reality is quite another story. As both the Allies and the Germans knew, only Germany’s Panzers could crush Overlord in its tracks. The Canadians’ job was to stop the Panzers—which, as this book finally makes clear, is precisely what they did. Rescuing from obscurity one of the least understood and most important chapters in the history of D-Day, Stopping the Panzers is the first full account of how the Allies planned for and met the Panzer threat to Operation Overlord. As such, this book marks nothing less than a paradigm shift in our understanding of the Normandy campaign. Beginning with the Allied planning for Operation Overlord in 1943, historian Marc Milner tracks changing and expanding assessments of the Panzer threat, and the preparations of the men and units tasked with handling that threat. Featured in this was the 3rd Canadian Division, which, treated so dismissively by history, was actually the most powerful Allied formation to land on D-Day, with a full armored brigade and nearly 300 artillery and antitank guns under command. Milner describes how, over four days of intense and often brutal battle, the Canadians fought to a literal standstill the 1st SS Panzer Corps—which included the Wehrmacht’s 21st Panzer Division; its vaunted elite Panzer Lehr Division; and the rabidly zealous 12th SS Hitler Youth Panzer Division, whose murder of 157 Canadian POWs accounted for nearly a quarter of Canadian fatalities during the fighting. Stopping the Panzers sets this murderous battle within the wider context of the Overlord assault, offering a perspective that challenges the conventional wisdom about Allied and German combat efficiency, and leads to one of the freshest assessments of the D-Day landings and their pre-attack planning in more than a decade. |
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erwin Data Modeling工具使组织可以无缝集成来自各种来源的数据，同时实现定义和格式的标准化。 该解决方案可降低风险、保证合规性并促进整个组织内数据的一致使用，从而打破数据孤 …
Data Modeling Tools | erwin, Inc.
If you’ve got data, then you need data modeling to see and understand all your enterprise data assets. Use erwin Data Modeler to reduce complexity and promote enterprise data literacy, …
Governança e modelagem de dados | erwin
O software erwin oferece governança e modelagem de dados juntas com percepções rápidas e precisas que orientam o gerenciamento de riscos, a inovação e a transformação digital.
Metadata Management Solutions | erwin, Inc.
With erwin, you can deliver an automated, real-time and high-quality data pipeline, including data-at-rest within databases, data warehouses and data lakes as well as data-in-motion as it flows …
Data Modeler Versions Comparisons | erwin, Inc.
Compare versions and understand add-ons for erwin Data Modeler to meet your data modeling needs. There’s a direct correlation between enterprise data fluency and the ability to maximize …
Announcing erwin Data Modeler 12.5 - erwin Expert Blog
Aug 1, 2023 · erwin Data Modeler 12.5 delivers data modeling governance, data quality and stakeholder collaboration capabilities to drive organizational data maturity and democratization …
