Nigel Thomas: World War II German Motorized Infantry & Panzergrenadiers [2017] paperback HBFIC 'A marvellous piece of imagination

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Nigel Thomas: World War II German Motorized Infantry & Panzergrenadiers [2017] paperback HBFIC 'A marvellous piece of imaginationIn World War II Germany's doctrine of mobile warfare dominated the battlefield. By trial and error, the Germans were the first to correctly combine the strength in tanks and in mobile infantry and artillery. This integration of mobile units, equipment and tactics underpinned Germany's successes in the first half of the war. As the war dragged on, the Allies sought to copy German tactics but German armies remained supreme in this type of warfare until