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The Tank In Attack (also known as Tank Attacks or Panzer greift an in German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
) is an unfinished book on armoured tactics and warfare by Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel , was perhaps the most famous Germany Generalfeldmarschall of World War II. He was the commander of the Afrika Korps and became known for the skillful military campaigns he waged on behalf of the Wehrmacht in North Africa....
. It was to be the follow-up and companion work to his earlier and highly successful Infantry Attacks
Infantry Attacks

Infantry Attacks is a classic book on military tactics written by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel about his experiences in World War I. In it were his Sto?truppen tactics....
.

It is believed he started writing it while commandant of the War Academy at Wiener Neustadt (Theresian Military Academy
Theresian Military Academy

The Theresian Military Academy is an academy, where the Austrian Armed Forces train their Officer . The Academy is located in the castle of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria...
) in 1938, though he may have started earlier during his time as an instructor at the Potsdam War Academy (1935–37).






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The Tank In Attack (also known as Tank Attacks or Panzer greift an in German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
) is an unfinished book on armoured tactics and warfare by Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel , was perhaps the most famous Germany Generalfeldmarschall of World War II. He was the commander of the Afrika Korps and became known for the skillful military campaigns he waged on behalf of the Wehrmacht in North Africa....
. It was to be the follow-up and companion work to his earlier and highly successful Infantry Attacks
Infantry Attacks

Infantry Attacks is a classic book on military tactics written by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel about his experiences in World War I. In it were his Sto?truppen tactics....
.

It is believed he started writing it while commandant of the War Academy at Wiener Neustadt (Theresian Military Academy
Theresian Military Academy

The Theresian Military Academy is an academy, where the Austrian Armed Forces train their Officer . The Academy is located in the castle of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria...
) in 1938, though he may have started earlier during his time as an instructor at the Potsdam War Academy (1935–37). His career as a military theorist and instructor, however, was preempted by his duties as a commander and soldier during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. For the next several years he was too busy as a practitioner of armored warfare to write about it.

Following the end of the North African Campaign
North African campaign

During World War II, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 16 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libya and Egypt deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia ....
 in 1943, he again started work on it, drawing upon his, by then, extensive experience and notes. But once more war, along with ill health, interfered as he was put in charge of the defense of Normandy
Normandy

Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is situated along the coast of France south of the English Channel between Brittany and Picardy and comprises territory in northern France and the Channel Islands....
 in 1944. After his staff car was strafed by an RCAF Spitfire
Supermarine Spitfire

The Supermarine Spitfire is a United Kingdom single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allies of World War II countries through the Second World War and on into the 1950s as a frontline fighter and in secondary roles....
 fighter on July 17 of that year, he again started on the work while recuperating from his injuries. But he was soon implicated in the July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 and compelled to commit suicide on October 14.

The Tank In Attack exists only in the form of scattered manuscripts and notes, but due to the fame of its author, it has achieved legendary status as a work of military literature. Most of what was to be in The Tank in Attack can be found in the book The Rommel Papers, which is made from notes and diary entries by Field Marshal Rommel during the Africa campaign.

The book is shown to be read by title character played by George C. Scott in the movie Patton.