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"if only Third Ypres had never happened! If only it were possible to bring back to life all the divisions which had been sacrificed in that stupendous grinding battle! Twenty-two million pounds had been expended on ammunition in that struggle – if only they had been devoted to tanks instead!"

Its hard to know of this is serious sentiment, or just salting an open wound of the British.

"It is every bit as wrong to lay down a preparatory bombardment which reduces the terrain to a lunar landscape."

I wonder what the contemporary conceptualization of lunar landscapes were at this time. Clearly by this quote its not far off from reality, but its not like they had lunar probes taking pictures in the 30s.

"The endurance of the British infantry had been severely tested in the process [Somme], and public opinion at home was shaken".

This entire part of the book is pure copium from a German Officer. Guderian spends this first part pointing out casualties the Allies took vs Germans. Then gives Verdun a paragraph. You guys lost, this is a book about Tanks, just put the the fries in the bag, sir.