Utilizing hitherto untapped archival sources, Azar Gat overturns recent historiographical trends in the study of British and German armour developments between the two World Wars. He reinstates British pioneering theory and practice as the inspiration for the creators of the Panzer arm that made possible Germany's 'Blitzkrieg' victories in the opening stage of World War II.
AZAR GAT is Associate Professor in the Department of political Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel. His earlier books include: The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz, The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century, and Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists.
Title: British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists (St Antony's Series)
Author: Gat, Azar
ISBN: 9780333773482
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2000-01-06
Number of Pages: 125
Weight: 0.3221 kg