The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II
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Military planners on both sides of the Second World War widely believed that fast, mechanised assault, massed bombing, and new technology would bring quick and decisive victories, or even an early surrender. John Mosier challenges that belief. He examines the major European campaigns, among them the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and the collapse of France in 1940, and argues that these were not, in fact, won by blitzkrieg. Instead, he contends, new machines ran up against the stubborn realities of conventional warfare, and the outcomes often hinged on older methods. The book reconsiders the military history of the war in that light.
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