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Old April 24th, 2003, 03:02 AM
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Does anyone know a link or book, or know anything concerning armoured combat tactics? Anything Guderian, Manstein, Rommel or any other General? This would be a great help. Cheers.
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Depends on what you are looking for? Which country? Guderian produced a few and there a lot of analysis out there on german armoured tactic as this is what formed the basis of NATO strategy. you could try these for a start:
- Heinz Guderian, Kenneth Macksey (Introduction), B. H. Liddell Hart, Constatine Fitzgibbon (Translator), Constantine Fitzgibbon (Translator) - Panzer Leader
- Heinz Guderian, Christopher Duffy (Translator), Paul Harris - Cassell Military Classics: Achtung-Panzer!: The Development Of Tank Warfare
- Charles C. Sharp - German Panzer Tactics in World War 2: Combat Tactics of German Armored Units from Section to Regiment
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Rommels own book on infantry tactics is a good place to start...
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well i'm a pantsercavalerist myself.
since ww2,military leaders experimented with tank strategy's
first succesfull attack was durind the blitz, where the found a balance between infantery and tanks...
and even this days this formule is used.
but now we also work with infantery fighting vehicles,succesfull scout units..
a tank platoon works with otherwise a straight firing scedule or a crossed scedule and while the 2 tanks are firing, the others will observ and give firing correction.Sdt.verbinnen 2/4 regiment lansiers (belgium)
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One of those books I have and have been meaning to finish for years...

Panzer Battles, Maj. Gen. F.W. von Mellenthin, Ballantine books, ISBN 0-345-32158-8.
Can be found at most booksstores, $7 paperback book. Written by a German general involved in many of the armored conflicts of WW2. Pretty damn good info...

Then there's literally hundreds, probably thousands, of books that deal with armored tactics in context of different subjects. Any specific theaters or operations?
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