Achtung-Panzer!

About “Achtung-Panzer!”

Achtung – Panzer! is a book written by Major-General Heinz Guderian, a German army general during World War II. Published in 1937, it focuses on the concept of motorised warfare, emphasizing the use of tanks in concentrated attacks with support from infantry and air forces. This approach later became known as Blitzkrieg tactics. The book also criticizes the continued use of cavalry, arguing that machine guns made cavalry obsolete, and suggests replacing cavalry units with mechanised infantry. The French and British general staff did not fully study the book, despite their own introduction of the tank. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)