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He published an account of the German war against France, denouncing the Blitzkrieg myth, which was translated into several languages (The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West). [1] He was also one of the principal researchers for the German semi-official history project Germany and the Second World War. [2] [3]
The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I, Harper Perennial, 2002, paperback, 381 pages, ISBN 0-06-008433-2; The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II HarperCollins, 2003, hardcover, 400 pages, ISBN 0-06-000976-4
Liddell Hart was born in Paris, the son of a Methodist minister. [1] His name at birth was Basil Henry Hart; he added "Liddell" to his surname in 1921. [2] His mother's side of the family, the Liddells, came from Liddesdale, on the Scottish side of the border with England, and were associated with the London and South Western Railway. [3]
Blitzkrieg [a] is a word used to describe a combined arms surprise attack, using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, together with artillery, air assault, and close air support.
The blitzkrieg myth suited the Allies, because it did not refer to their military incompetence; it was expedient to exaggerate the excellence of German equipment. The Germans avoided an analysis based on technical determinism, since this contradicted Nazi ideology and OKW attributed the victory to the "revolutionary dynamic of the Third Reich ...
Blitzkrieg consisted of an avalanche of actions that were sorted out less by design and more by success."[31] (Naveh advanced this argument as a means to attack the credibility of Liddell Hart, who had become highly influential among the Israeli military.[32] (bias, assumption of motivation AND unreliable source for refutation) (Naveh claimed ...
“In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy — and probably our economy — and seize control. Call it what it is,” Murphy added, referencing a form of warfare characterized ...
Wehrmacht soldiers and journalists with German victims of Bloody Sunday. [10] The photo was used by the Nazi press and bears the editor's cropping marks, showing the portion of the image that was intended to be used for publication.