Inside the Nazi War Machine
How Three Generals Unleashed Hitler's Blitzkrieg Upon the World

With Inside the Nazi War Machine: How Three Generals Unleashed Hitler's Blitzkrieg Upon the World author Bevin Alexander delivers a more than serviceable history of the Battle of France during WWII. As Alexander points out, it was a great victory and an even greater lost opportunity. He focuses on t......more

Insightful book on strategy, competition and cooperation. It details how German Panzer Commander Guderian's blitzkrieg strategy was resisted and misunderstood by German, French and British conventional military commanders. The book helps unmask the hindsight revisionist view where German might was f......more

Three strategically brilliant generals- Erwin Rommel, Erich von Manstein, and Heinz Guderian, set Europe on its hind legs as the new World War bring participants from a stagnant trench warfare era to a mechanized juggernaut that out performs superior forces with cunning, bravery and guts. The Blitzk......more

Used the audio edition which was a good production. This is a well written account of the start of World War 2 in the West. This includes the details on the strengths and weaknesses of the German advance. I found this account very readable and understood the detailed information on the military acti......more

A good overview of the Nazi defeat of France. Explores the main generals that contributed to the German victory. The book proceeds from the thesis that a handful of innovative German generals could have won the war, but Hitler was an inept fool. While there are a few good insights, the book does not......more