Hitler's Panzer Generals
Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded

The Myth of the ‘Honorable’ Panzer General The history of the German panzer generals is often told as a story of brilliant militairy minds, strategic innovations and battlefield genius - mainly by the generals themselves but also willingly embraced by the Allies after the war. This book dismantles th......more

This is a panzer general treatise of a refreshingly different kind. Instead of detailing their tactical and strategic maneuvers, it analyses their characters, their conduct and moral.......more

I like the research here and the attempt to portray to them men in a more 3D light. I however think that the days when German generals were portrayed as military gods and antagonistic towards Nazism has lead to an over correction where the generals are portrayed more negatively as commanders and the......more

I have just finished my read of David Stahel's "Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded," graciously provided to me in the form of an ARC by Cambridge University Press. Frankly, it poses some challenges for me. I am not a trained psychologist, but I have read ver......more

Overall - an interesting and thorough analysis of the real men behind the Nazi propaganda darlings that the leading Panzer generals on the Eastern front were made out to be and their subsequent (partially successful) attempts to wash their hands of the military failures and unprecedented war crimes......more