“Achtung, Panzer!” (“Attention, tanks!”) - under this slogan, the tankers of the Third Reich made a real revolution in military affairs. “Panzer voran!” (“Tanks, forward!”) - this military march became the leitmotif of the brilliant blitzkriegs of the Wehrmacht, a universal formula for victory. By the early 1940s, the German command managed to create the perfect instrument of “lightning war”, which at that time had no equal. Tank divisions became the basis of Nazi military power, the all-crushing battering ram of the Wehrmacht. Their young and aggressive commanders, such as Guderian and Rommel, revolutionized the art of war and forever changed the nature of combat... A new book by a leading military historian traces the combat path of all the armored divisions of the Third Reich, from their creation to complete defeat or surrender. This is a detailed chronicle of the Panzerwaffe, a complete history of "Hitler's armored legions", an in-depth analysis of their development, weapons, tactics and combat use during the Second World War.