Panzer Leader, is Heinz Guderian's memoir of World War II and the period leading up to it. Earlier this year I read his Achtung! Panzer!, the theoretical book he wrote in the early 1930s, offering his view of how armor should operate in the future. It seemed logical to follow that book up with the proof of the pudding.
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    One of the pieces of American Literature I'll be imposing on my students, is Life of Black Hawk, as narrated by Black Hawk (in 1833) to a translator, and then cleaned up by an editor. This narration took place five years before Black Hawk's death, and soon after his return from an imprisonment that seemed more like a Grand Tour of the East, ( Read more... )