The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign In The West

from jcbrunner

Frieser's campaign analysis is a real gem. This operational history of one of the most famous campaigns blasts away many commonly held myths about the Blitzkrieg. The Wehrmacht did not plan a lightning strike, did not expect its success and hampered the Panzer forces from achieving the annihilati...

from Shrike58

This study didn't quite have the impact for me that I thought it would, but that might be a function of how Frieser's conclusions have been influencing the field for years. In any case, this is the classic analysis debunking the notion that there was a theory of "lightning war" before the wholly ...

from jmkemp

As part of the planning for the megagame War in the West I bought myself a copy of Blitzkrieg Legend because it is the German Army's official history (although it didn't get written until the 1990s).From reading the first couple of chapters and looking through the maps you can see the evolution o...

from CharlesFerdinand

If you read just one book about the May 1940 campaign, this should be it. Frieser clearly shows that the vaunted Blitzkrieg method wasn't a clear doctrine adopted by the German Amry. Instead, it was more or less developed on the spot, as armour commanders such as Guderian and Rommel sought to put...

from jcbrunner

Frieser's campaign analysis is a real gem. This operational history of one of the most famous campaigns blasts away many commonly held myths about the Blitzkrieg. The Wehrmacht did not plan a lightning strike, did not expect its success and hampered the Panzer forces from achieving the annihilati...