As Germany pierced through the Soviet Union’s Eastern Front in an ambitious attempt to take Moscow in the summer of 1941, it ...

PANZER LEADER [528 pp.)—Heinz Guderian—Dutton ($7.50). Watching a weapons demonstration at Kummersdorf one day in 1933. Chancellor Adolf Hitler exclaimed with delight: “That’s what I need! That’s what ...

After three days of relentless battle, the Polish forces at Wizna were nearly spent. German engineers, backed by roaring artillery and the grinding advance of tanks, had shattered their defensive line ...