Recommendation for Game to Buy

[GerryM]

Hello:

Thinking of getting into the series but still a bit intimidated with the size of these games in number of units, amount of time to do a turn, etc.

Can you recommend what you think is the easiest of the PzC games to get into for a beginner to operational games (not the North Africa games for the moment though).

Also, for your choice, can you recommend a good book on the campaign that is reasonably easy to read.

Thanks in advance,

Gerry