Hitler’s Panzers presents the first comprehensive history of Nazi Germany’s armored forces, including the army’s tankers and their sinister partners in the Waffen SS. Among his strategic accomplishments, Hitler built self-contained armored units, able to operate without direct leadership. Their story is presented from multiple complementary perspectives in this unbiased account by scholar Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century.

In Hitler’s Panzers, Showalter demonstrates how the front-line imperatives of arms, doctrine, and tactics were integrated into the development of the panzers’ institutional character. He demonstrates the Panzers’ place in the military culture of the Third Reich; their role in World War II, and of course, their legacies - both the myths and the realities.

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Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century
by Dennis Showalter

A dual biography of the two World War II generals who changed warfare - and history - forever.

General George S. Patton and General Erwin Rommel: They served their countries through two World Wars. Their temperaments, both on and off the battlefield, were overwhelmingly contrary - but their approach to modern warfare was remarkably similar.

Written by a prominent military historian, Patton and Rommel takes a provocative look at both figures, intertwining the stories of the paths they took and the decisions they made during the course of the Second World War - and compares the lives and careers of two men whose military tactics redirected the course of history.