03758nam 2200721 450 991080820060332120211116232704.00-8014-7138-91-322-52224-30-8014-7139-710.7591/9780801471391(CKB)3710000000216383(OCoLC)889302586(CaPaEBR)ebrary10904423(SSID)ssj0001291686(PQKBManifestationID)11693090(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001291686(PQKBWorkID)11248165(PQKB)11720259(OCoLC)967525006(MdBmJHUP)muse51926(DE-B1597)478342(OCoLC)979579880(DE-B1597)9780801471391(Au-PeEL)EBL3138631(CaPaEBR)ebr10904423(CaONFJC)MIL683506(OCoLC)887802634(MiAaPQ)EBC3138631(EXLCZ)99371000000021638320140815h20032003 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrStorm of steel the development of armor doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939 /Mary R. HabeckIthaca, New York :Cornell University Press,2003.©20031 online resource (335 p.)Cornell Studies in Security AffairsIncludes index.0-8014-4074-2 0-8014-7948-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --1. The Unfinished Machine, 1919-1923 --2. Materiel or Morale? The Debate over the Mechanization of Warfare, 1923-1927 --3. Technology Triumphant Early German-Soviet Collaboration , 1927-1929 --4. Consensus and Conflict, 1930-1931 --5. A New Confidence? The End of Collaboration , 1932-1933 --6. Trading Places, 1934-1936 --7. The Evidence of Small Wars Armor Doctrine in Practice, 1936-1939 --Epilogue Armor Doctrine and Large Wars, 1939-1941 --List of Abbreviations --IndexIn this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle. Only in Germany and the Soviet Union were truly original armor doctrines (generally known as "blitzkreig" and "deep battle") fully implemented. Storm of Steel relates how the German and Soviet armies formulated and chose to put into practice doctrines that were innovative for the time, yet in many respects identical to one another.As part of her extensive archival research in Russia, Germany, and Britain, Habeck had access to a large number of formerly secret and top-secret documents from several post-Soviet archives. This research informs her comparative approach as she looks at the roles of technology, shared influences, and assumptions about war in the formation of doctrine. She also explores relations between the Germans and the Soviets to determine whether collaboration influenced the convergence of their armor doctrines.Cornell studies in security affairs.Tank warfareMilitary doctrineGermanyHistory20th centuryMilitary doctrineSoviet UnionHistory20th centuryTank warfare.Military doctrineHistoryMilitary doctrineHistory358/.18/094309041Habeck Mary R.960264MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808200603321Storm of steel3961644UNINA