TWO BESTSELLERS IN ONE VOLUME! Complete edition of both books by the leading military historian, dedicated to the tank wars of the 20th century, including the legendary Blitzkrieg. The past century is rightfully considered the “Age of Tanks” - no other branch of the military had such an influence on the course military operations: tanks played a decisive role in most armed conflicts, making a real revolution in military affairs, forever changing the nature of modern warfare. However, only three states managed to create full-fledged, truly effective tank forces - Hitler's Germany, the Soviet Union and Israel - only these countries, having gone through a long path of bloody trial and error, were able to develop and successfully apply in practice the theory of tank warfare, the pinnacle of which was German BLITZKRIEG, subsequently adopted by Soviet and Israeli tank crews. The entire second part of the book is devoted to the analysis of the strategy and tactics of “lightning war”. In addition, of particular interest is the chapter in which the author models the failed conflict between the USSR and NATO, clearly demonstrating that, contrary to American forecasts, the West actually had no chance of resisting Soviet tank power in the European Theater of Operations.