[abb]

You might want to include Heinz Guderian, arguably the first effective practitioner of Blitzkrieg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Guderian

[Larry381]

You might want to include Heinz Guderian, arguably the first effective practitioner of Blitzkrieg.

Guderian was a great general but many German generals considered Field Marshall Erich Manstein to be Germany's top strategist and I've even heard it said he was the best General in the war. His tactics against the Soviets, who always outnumbered his forces at least three to one, were models of creativity and skill and he probably saved Army Group South after Stalingrad when the Italian, Hungarian and Romanian forces in the east were overrun by the Red Army.