What is "panzerschlachten"

Panzerschlachten (Panzer Battles) is the German language title of Friedrich von Mellenthin's autobiographical account of his service as a staff officer in the Panzer arm of the Wehrmacht Heer during World War II. The first English edition, as Panzer Battles: A Study of the Employment of Armor in the Second World War, was published in 1956 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Panzer Battles was part of the exculpatory memoirs genre that fed the post-war revisionist narrative, put forth by Wehrmacht generals. The book was instrumental in forming the misconceptions of the U.S. view of Eastern Front military operations up to the mid-to-late 1990s, when Soviet archival sources became available to Western and Russian historians.