Guderian: Panzer Pioneer or Myth Maker? (Brassey's Military Profiles)
by Russell Hart
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Author: Russell HartEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-31
ISBN: 1574888099
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
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Book Review: Macksey with a twist of Lemon
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a much-anticipated, but ultimately disappointing new profile of Guderian. The author has done very little in the way of original research and has ignored some very important, easily accessible sources. He has basically taken Macksey's biography of Guderian, stripped out the positive elements, and tossed in some negative elements from the recent works of other historians. This isn't a biography, it's a hatchet job and from all the poor writing it contains - overloaded adjectives and repeated cliches - it's a very rushed hatchet job at that.
Guderian deserves better than this. If a biographer chooses to re-examine Guderian's life and perhaps deflate his legend along the way, he should do so using all available sources, such as Guderian's personal papers at the German military archives and the interrogation reports and unit records easily obtainable at a number of archives, including the US National Archives. Anything less than that is not worth the paper it is printed on.
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