Blitzkrieg in Their Own Words

Wisconsin Bookwatch, March, 2006

Blitzkrieg In Their Own Words

Professor Alan Bance, translator

Zenith Press

729 Prospect Avenue, Osceola, WI 54020

www.zenithpress.com

0760321868 $21.95 1-800-766-2388

Based on a German book published during World War II and never before translated into English, Blitzkrieg In Their Own Words: First-Hand Accounts From German Soldiers 1939-1940 is an anthology of short, firsthand accounts by Wehrmacht German soldiers who took part in Blitzkrieg ("lightning war") style of fighting - a methodology developed by Hitler's generals that applied fast-moving tank attacks to gouge holes in the enemy's front lines. Blitzkrieg In Their Own Words includes a foreword by Heinz Guderian, one of the leading architects of Blitzkrieg armored warfare tactics. Because it was originally published during the Nazi regime, Blitzkrieg In Their Own Words is neither balanced nor restrained, as it describes the merciless devastation of Polish and French armies with vicious zeal. A handful of black-and-white photographic plates describing events in the book illustrate this biased yet nonetheless valuable primary source of military and human history.