Guderian

If field marshals such as Manstein and Guderian had been allowed to practice the elastic defence wich they advocated the german army would not have been wiped out in detail.

Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge! 2010

There were many other good ones that have never gotten the name recognition that Guderian or Rommel have.

Matthew Yglesias » ADL Hits Petraeus 2010

Their better commanders, like Guderian, were by temperament aggressive and inclined to push forward and let someone else clean up behind them.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

The two German commanders operating in this section of the German offensive were Guderian, regarded by British military historians as the father of the Blitzkrieg, and the even more talented Hoth.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Moreover, despite the vehement objections of leading tankers like Guderian, the Germans had begun manufacturing much cheaper and surprisingly effective armored tracked vehicles.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Although Guderian, one of the victors, visited Smolensk on the 17th, recording that it was largely undamaged, there is nothing in his dry-as-dust record of those days to indicate any sort of self-consciousness as to his victory, or for that matter, that a battle had even been fought.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Defensively, this was the automatic response, the corollary to the notion of the double envelopment that characterized their offensive notions, and that Hoth and Guderian had effected so impressively at Smolensk.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

His two armored groups were commanded by two outstanding exponents of armored warfare: Heinz Guderian and the vastly underrated Hermann Hoth.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

A remarkable judgment, given that the generation included Erwin Rommel (born 1891), Heinz Guderian (1888), and Erich von Manstein (1887), generally credited with devising the plan for the May 1940 attack in the west, and the driving spirit behind some of the most impressive German victories in the east.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

After being included in the tiny officer corps of the new postwar army, Wever was promoted to major in 1926 (Manstein: 1927), lieutenant colonel in 1930 (Guderian: 1931), and full colonel in 1933 (Rommel: 1938), having been shuttled back and forth between command and staff positions.

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