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Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939

Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939

Hardcover

Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

German HistoryMilitary StrategyWeaponry & Vehicles

ISBN10: 0801440742
ISBN13: 9780801440748
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jan 30 2003
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.62
Language: English

In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle. Only in Germany and the Soviet Union were truly original armor doctrines (generally known as blitzkreig and deep battle) fully implemented. Storm of Steel relates how the German and Soviet armies formulated and chose to put into practice doctrines that were innovative for the time, yet in many respects identical to one another.As part of her extensive archival research in Russia, Germany, and Britain, Habeck had access to a large number of formerly secret and top-secret documents from several post-Soviet archives. This research informs her comparative approach as she looks at the roles of technology, shared influences, and assumptions about war in the formation of doctrine. She also explores relations between the Germans and the Soviets to determine whether collaboration influenced the convergence of their armor doctrines.

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