"), written by Major-General Heinz Guderian, a German World War II army general, is a book on the application of motorized warfare.

First published in 1937, it expounds a new kind of warfare: the concentrated use of tanks, with infantry and air force in close support, later known as Blitzkrieg tactics.

[1] The first half of the book focuses on the advent of positional or 'trench warfare' in World War I, and the subsequent development of the first tanks.

It brought back the 19th century school of thought that advocated manoeuvre and decisive battle outcomes in military strategy.

was the main driving force behind German armoured manoeuver warfare in World War II that was so successful in Europe and Africa.