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Blitz-kreig

Blitz-kreig

by Len Deighton

1979World War, 1939-1945HistoryLightning warWorld war, 1939-1945, germanyHitler, adolf, 1889-1945
4.0
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About this book

Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece to his own, more dramatic Fighter (1977). Paralleling that chronicle of the Battle of Britain, Blitzkrieg works its way from Germany's defeat in 1918 to the application of ""lightning war"" strategy in the opening rounds of World War II. At first glance, there seems to be little new here, almost nothing that couldn't be gleaned from reading William Shirer. One possibility, however, is to take this as a warning: the debacle on the Continent in May 1940 resulted more from the psychological unpreparedness of the Allies than from the genius of Hitler's Blitzkrieg specialist, Heinz Guderian. Deighton repeats what we already know--that the Allies were actually stronger in terms of armor than the Germans, but had been trained for slow-motion, set-piece battles. This ""Maginot Line complex"" prevented the French and English from concentrating forces rapidly enough to blunt German thrusts in the Ardennes and, later, at Sedan. Deighton writes that Guderian, ""whose knowledge of mechanized warfare exceeded that of any man in the world,"" had welded the Wehrmacht into a highly mobile force that could advance as fast as its combat engineers could replace demolished bridges; that the ""Creator of the Blitzkrieg"" trained his men in forced route marches and then used only his most seasoned troops against the Western Allies; finally, that the Luftwaffe (under the command of Goering) provided a constant air umbrella for the swift-moving panzer columns. ""The defeat of the Allies on the Continent …

Themes & subjects

World War, 1939-1945HistoryLightning warWorld war, 1939-1945, germanyHitler, adolf, 1889-1945Germany, history, 1933-1945
First published 1979

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Germany1933-1945

About the author

Len Deighton

1929 – 2026

Author

Len Deighton

First published

1979

Pages

319

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

25

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

ISBN

9780241505212

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