Robert M. Citino is professor of history at the University of North Texas and author of The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich; Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940; and Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare, which won both the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award and the American Historical Association's Paul Birdsall Prize.
This book is a winner across the board. . . . Citino’s concept of
Bewegungskrieg (mobile war), elegantly defined and convincingly
demonstrated, should become the new benchmark for analysis. . . .
Citino’s clarity and perception, his understanding of the operation
level of war, informs this work from first page to last.""-
Historian;
""Citino’s well written and thoughtful study will be of great value
to experts and novices alike.""- NYMAS Review, New York Military
Affairs Symposium;
""Citino writes well and makes a persuasive case. Those new to the
campaigns of 1942 will find an education in this book. Those
familiar with Irwin Rommel’s exploits in Libya and Egypt or Fedor
von Bock’s drive to the Volga will find a challenging new
interpretation of these famous operations.""- Military Review;
""[This book] establishes Robert Citino as a major figure in the
history of the German army in World War II.""- Military
History;
""A winner across the board by one of the masters of operational
history. The capstone to a four-volume study on modern mobile
warfare, it solidifies Citino’s position among the very best
scholars who have written on the ‘German way of war.’ In
particular, his treatment of the 1942 Russian campaigns is fully
level with the best of David Glantz’s work from the Soviet
perspective and restores both Stalingrad and El Alamein to their
rightful status as major turning points in the war.""- Dennis
Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel;
""There is no better examination of German operations during the
crisis year of 1942.""- Geoffrey P. Megargee, author of Inside
Hitler’s High Command;
""It is only fitting that the scholar who has traced the
distinctive manner in which first Prussia and then Germany fought
its wars should now offer a carefully researched and lucidly
written account of how that way of fighting led to and ended in
disaster in World War II.""- Gerhard L. Weinberg, author of A World
at Arms: A Global History of World War II
""A winner across the board by one of the masters of operational
history. The capstone to a four-volume study on modern mobile
warfare, it solidifies Citino's position among the very best
scholars who have written on the 'German way of war.' In
particular, his treatment of the 1942 Russian campaigns is fully
level with the best of David Glantz's work from the Soviet
perspective and restores both Stalingrad and El Alamein to their
rightful status as major turning points in the war.""- Dennis
Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel;
""There is no better examination of German operations during the
crisis year of 1942.""- Geoffrey P. Megargee, author of Inside
Hitler's High Command;
""It is only fitting that the scholar who has traced the
distinctive manner in which first Prussia and then Germany fought
its wars should now offer a carefully researched and lucidly
written account of how that way of fighting led to and ended in
disaster in World War II.""- Gerhard L. Weinberg, author of A World
at Arms: A Global History of World War II
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