Heinz Guderian – Master of the Panzers

The first French-language biography of the founding father of the German armoured arm, "soul and genius of the Blitzkrieg", by the foremost military specialist of the Second World War.

Guderian: the man clad in the black uniform of the armoured troops who crushed France in 1940 at Sedan, before marching on Moscow. It is to him that Hitler owed his Panzer divisions, which made the world tremble. It is to him, in 1944, when everything was going wrong, that he would turn once again to stave off defeat.

Guderian: a visionary of modern warfare but also a liar, an odious colleague, selfish, ready to do anything to hold on to the top position. But a master strategist and a warrior of the first order.

Guderian: a man who passionately loved his wife Margarete, and whose 3,000 pages of correspondence, written between 1912 and 1948, provide a solid framework and their full weight of humanity to this first biography in French.

Guderian: the man who served the most criminal regime imaginable and yet emerged without the slightest penalty from the Nuremberg trials. This impunity warranted its own investigation.

Guderian: the life of a man who is also a guiding thread for understanding the illusions of a Germany that twice attempted to rise to the rank of first world power and twice shattered itself, leaving a bill of fifty million dead.

The definitive biography, based on new sources and a total command of the documentation, written with a lively pen by the foremost specialist — a landmark historical work.