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Tiger Tracks
- The Classic Panzer Memoir
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing extensive combat action on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir is his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage.
Depicting a running tank engagement lasting 72 hours, Faust describes how his Tiger unit fought pitched battles in the snows of Western Russia against the full might of the Red Army: the T34s, the Stalin tanks, the Sturmovik bombers, and the feared Katyusha rocket brigades. His astonishing testimony reveals the merciless decisions that panzer crews made in action, the devastating power of their weaponry, and the many ways that men met their deaths in the snow and ice of the Ostfront.
First published in the late 1940s, this memoir's savage realism shocked the postwar German public. Some were outraged at the book's final scenes while others wrote that "now, at last, I know what our men did in the East".
Today it stands as one of the great semiautobiographical accounts of warfare in World War II - a crescendo of horror, grim survival, and a fatalistic acceptance of the panzer man's destiny.
Originally published in the German Federal Republic as Panzerdammerung (Panzer Twilight).
The only other surviving memoir by this author is The Last Panther - an astonishing account of panzer warfare in the final hours of the Third Reich.
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- Border Collie
- 27-06-16
Fictional account, not true history.
I nearly gave up on this book after the first chapter as it a fictional account.
I returned to it and was surprised to find I quite enjoyed the story. If nothing else, it clarified the roles of Tank crew members.
Short, gruesome but quite a good listen.
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- G Patterson
- 22-04-20
A massive disappointment.
Having read books in the same vein such as Panzer Commander by Hans von Luck, and Panzer Ace by Richard Freiherr von Rosen I found this Tiger Tracks by Wolfgang Faust along the lines of a single chapter in the fictional novels of a penal panzer battalion by Sven Hassel. And not a very good chapter at that.
Extremely disappointing
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- clyburn
- 03-03-21
I'm glad that's all over
if my 13 year old son had written this for school I would expect a weeks detention.
It's amazing how much you can see through a window of a tank.
5hrs I'll never get back
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-05-21
Purports to be a true account - I doubt it VERY much.
I purchased this as a supposedly true autobiographical account of tank combat on the Eastern Front, but I simply don’t believe this to be so. Unlike Otto Carius and his excellent ‘Tigers in the Mud’, there are no autobiographical details about the author online or in this book itself. We are thrown immediately into a very specific series of events covering a short period of time involving a battalion sized unit with no context at all, and no back-story. As an English grad, the story to me uses far too many cliched narrative tropes that make it far more like a ‘Sven Hassell’ fictional novel than a true account; lastly, as former military, some of the descriptions of battle and weapons of weapons effects is, to me, absurd - among a number of highly implausible episodes, he claims to have actually seen an 88mm shell pierce and ‘ricochet around’ the interior of an enemy tank before it exploded. A high velocity 88mm shell is not a rubber ball and it would be almost impossible to behave like that, let alone be able SEE it doing so. And this is just one of many highly implausible episodes, yet all taking place not across the years of genuine autobiographical accounts as in Carius’ work (which contained no such implausible absurdities) but all in the space of a few days. If you like ‘Sven Hassell’ you might enjoy this . But as an autobiographical work, it doesn’t deserve more than one star.
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- Paul J
- 13-02-21
Got my attention from the start
Fast moving and it held my interest from start to finish. I agree with one observation of there seemed a tick list of how people die, but having chatted to a couple of men who were on the Russian front, I believe it was that bloody. I also felt some of the seeing faces and looking inside tanks were more imagination than real, but the theatre as Germany tried to pull back from an army continuing to chase and hunt them, the horror must have exceeded their minds ability to grasp the reality. Nothing like Sven Hassel, I might check out another from this author. Strange to hear a clear representation of the Waffen belief in the German army protecting Europe from ‘Ivan’. Very strange and a little twisted.
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- heisenberg
- 05-01-21
panzer marche !
really good all round story of the struggles of a ww2 panzer group. Full of vivid descriptions of battle.
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- ross pygall
- 09-12-20
Good story.
detailed and well informed story. I found it enjoyable. the life of a tank driver eh.
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- Alex
- 30-11-20
very interesting point of view
This showed me a side of the war I knew little about and getting it literally from the drivers seat was fantastic.
If you are interested in ww2 and tanks from that era this is for you.
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- Engineer
- 26-11-20
I'm not sure about this...
It would have been better read by someone with a soft German accent, yank tones seemed odd.
The story was OK but it would have been nice to find out how the Faust survived the war... it left a lot of unanswered questions.
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- sean mchugh
- 27-02-20
the horrors of war
a compelling listen with no hold back on the horrors of war you end up feeling the desperation relief and fear of the tiger crew
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