And about to publish my third for Oxford “Future War and the Defence of Europe. With ten books to my name, including two for Oxford University Press.

The First Tank : Battle of Flers-Courcelette Written by Julian Lindley-FrenchĪnalyst, author, commentator and speaker. Then, France and the Low Countries in 1940, and on the Soviet Union in 1941.

The result was the Blitzkrieg tactics that Nazi Germany decided to employ on Poland in 1939.

It was German commanders such as Guderian and Rommel, and Russian thinkers such as Tukhachevsky, who saw the real potential of the tank during the interbellum and properly exploited Rawlinson’s August 1918 lessons. What followed thereafter was a fighting German retreat that would continue to the Armistice in November 1918. So as to punch a hole through the defences of over-extended German forces. Rawlinson for the first time used air power, infantry and massed tanks in close order. On what German commander General Erich Ludendorff called ‘the black day of the German Army”. Rawlinson commanded the Fourth Army at the Somme and had seen the potential of the tank. One of the most innovative of British commanders General Sir Henry Rawlinson. Amiens 1918 : The Birth of Blitzkrieg Amiens 1918 : The Birth of Blitzkrieg

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